Installing Tar

Installation of Tar

Install Tar by running the following commands:



root:tar-1.13# ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-nls
root:tar-1.13# make LDFLAGS=-static
root:tar-1.13# make prefix=$LFS/usr install
root:tar-1.13# mv $LFS/usr/bin/tar $LFS/bin

Contents

The tar package contains the tar and rmt programs.

Description

tar

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

rmt

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