5.28. Installing Tar-1.13.25

5.28.1. 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

5.28.2.

5.28.3. Tar Installation Dependencies

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

5.28.4.

5.28.5. Installation of Tar

Prepare Tar for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/tools

Compile the programs:

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

Then install them and their documentation:

make install