Tar

For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Tar-1.13.25 in Chapter 6.

Official Download Location

Tar (1.13.25):
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/

Contents of Tar

(Last checked against version 1.13.25.)

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

Short descriptions

rmt is used to remotely manipulate a magnetic tape drive, through an interprocess communication connection.

tar is used to create and extract files from archives, also known as tarballs.

Tar Installation Dependencies

(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, cpp, 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