2 <title>Installation of Tar</title>
4 <para>If you want to be able to directly use bzip2 files with tar, you can
6 patch available from the LFS FTP site. This patch will add the -j option
7 to tar which works the same as the -z option to tar (which can be used
8 for gzip files).</para>
10 <para>Apply the patch by running the following command:</para>
12 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../tar-1.13.patch</userinput></screen></para>
14 <para>Install Tar by running the following commands from the toplevel
17 <para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/bin \
18 --bindir=/bin &&
20 make install</userinput></screen></para>