%general-entities; ]> Tar The following patch adds a man page for tar: patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-man_page-patch; The following patch contains a fix for an issue that may occur when tar calls an outside compression utility like bzip2: patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-revert_pipe_drain-patch; The following patch will add support for new compressors like XZ Utils: patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-new_compressors-patch; Prepare Tar for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --libexecdir=/usr/sbin Compile the package: make To test the results, issue: make check. Install the package: make install Installed programs rmt and tar Short Descriptions rmt Remotely manipulates a magnetic tape drive through an interprocess communication connection rmt tar Creates, extracts files from, and lists the contents of archives, also known as tarballs tar