Installing Tar-1.13.25

Approximate build time:  0.2 SBU
Required disk space:     10 MB

Official download location for Tar (1.13.25):
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/

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

Installation of Tar

Prepare Tar for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/tools

Compile the programs:

make

As discussed earlier, we don't recommend running the test suites for the temporary tools here in this chapter. If you still want to run the Tar test suite anyway, the following command will do so:

make check

Then install them and their documentation:

make install

The details on this package are found in the Section called Contents of Tar in Chapter 6.