BOOK/chapter06/tar-inst.xml

   1 <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
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   3 <sect2>
   4 <title>Installation of Tar</title>
   5
   6 <para>A patch may be applied to give tar direct support for bzip2
   7 files. This patch adds the <emphasis>-j</emphasis> option to tar,
   8 which is similar to the <emphasis>-z</emphasis> option used for
   9 gzip files.</para>
  10
  11 <para>Apply the patch by running the following command:</para>
  12
  13 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../tar-&tar-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>
  14
  15 <para>Prepare Tar to be compiled:</para>
  16
  17 <para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin \
  18 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--libexecdir=/usr/bin</userinput></screen></para>
  19
  20 <para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>
  21
  22 <para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
  23
  24 <para>Finish installing the package:</para>
  25
  26 <para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
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  28 </sect2>
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