LDP/LDP/retired/LFS/chapter6/tar-inst.xml

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<title>Installation of Tar</title>
<para>If you want to be able to directly use bzip2 files with tar, you can
use the tar
patch available from the LFS FTP site. This patch will add the -j option
to tar which works the same as the -z option to tar (which can be used
for gzip files).</para>
<para>Apply the patch by running the following command:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../tar-1.13.patch</userinput></screen></para>
<para>Install Tar by running the following commands from the toplevel
directory:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/bin \
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--bindir=/bin &amp;&amp;
make &amp;&amp;
make install</userinput></screen></para>
</sect2>