6.57. Installing Tar-1.13.25

6.57.1. Contents of Tar

Tar is an archiving program designed to store and extract files from an archive file known as a tar file.

Installed programs: rmt and tar

6.57.2.

6.57.3. Tar Installation Dependencies

Tar depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.

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6.57.5. Installation of Tar

Prepare Tar for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin \
    --libexecdir=/usr/bin

Compile the package:

make

This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the following command will do so:

make check

And install the package:

make install