Tar

Official Download Location

Tar (1.13):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/

Tar Patch (1.13):
ftp://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-packages/4.0-rc1/
http://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-packages/4.0-rc1/

Contents of Tar

Last checked against version 1.13.

Program Files

rmt and tar

Descriptions

rmt

rmt is a program used by the remote dump and restore programs in manipulating a magnetic tape drive through an interprocess communication connection.

tar

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

Tar Installation Dependencies

Last checked against version 1.13.

Autoconf: autoconf, autoheader
Automake: aclocal, automake
Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib
Diffutils: cmp
Fileutils: chmod, install, ls, mv, rm
Gettext: msgfmt, xgettext
Gcc: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Glibc: getconf
Grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
M4: m4
Make: make
Gawk: gawk
Net-tools: hostname
Patch: patch
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: basename, echo, expr, sleep, uname
Texinfo: install-info, makeinfo
Textutils: cat, tr