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1 <sect1 id="ch-tools-tar">
2 <title>Installing Tar-&tar-version;</title>
3 <?dbhtml filename="tar.html" dir="chapter05"?>
5 <screen>&buildtime; &tar-time-tools;
6 &diskspace; &tar-compsize-tools;</screen>
8 &aa-tar-down;
9 &aa-tar-dep;
11 <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
13 <sect2>
14 <title>Installation of Tar</title>
16 <para>Prepare Tar for compilation:</para>
18 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools</userinput></screen>
20 <para>Compile the programs:</para>
22 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
24 <para>As discussed earlier, we don't recommend running the test suites for the
25 temporary tools here in this chapter. If you still want to run the Tar test
26 suite anyway, the following command will do so:</para>
28 <screen><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>
30 <para>Then install them and their documentation:</para>
32 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
34 </sect2>
36 <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para>
37 <para>The details on this package are found in <xref linkend="contents-tar"/>.</para>
38 <para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
40 </sect1>