For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Tar-1.13.25 in Chapter 6.
Tar (1.13.25):
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/
(Last checked against version 1.13.)
Tar is an archiving program designed to store and extract files from an archive file known as a tar file.
Tar installs the following:
rmt and tar
(Last checked against version 1.13.)
rmt is a program used by the remote dump and restore programs to manipulate a magnetic tape drive through an interprocess communication connection.
tar is an archiving program designed to store and extract files from an archive file known as a tar file.
(Last checked against version 1.13.)
Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib
Coreutils: basename, cat, chmod, echo, expr, install, ls, mv, rm,
sleep, tr, uname
Diffutils: cmp
Gawk: gawk
GCC: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Gettext: msgfmt, xgettext
Glibc: getconf
Grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
M4: m4
Make: make
Net-tools: hostname
Patch: patch
Sed: sed
Texinfo: install-info, makeinfo