A.49. Tar

For installation instructions see Section 6.57.

A.49.1. Official Download Location

Tar (1.13.25):
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/

A.49.2. 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

A.49.3.

A.49.4. Short descriptions

rmt is used to remotely manipulate a magnetic tape drive, through an interprocess communication connection.

tar is used to create and extract files from archives, also known as tarballs.

A.49.5.

A.49.6. Tar Installation Dependencies

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

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