GNU Tar

The tar program provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation. For example, you can use tar on previously created archives to extract files, to store additional files, or to update or list files which were already stored. Port by different authors.

This software is distributed in two modes:

as compressed package that you have to download and manually install; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too;
as RPM package; you can install it using your favorite rpm package manager, that will take care to download and install both the software and its prerequisites.

Choose the installation mode that you prefer. Please note that not all the versions are available in both the installation modes.

Installation with rpm

This program is installable using the rpm package manager. See below for the install string. Required prerequisites are automatically processed by the package manager and, if needed, downloaded and installed.

tar-1.23-7.oc00 (02/02/2012)

Repository: Netlabs stable

install with ANPM or running the command:
```
yum install tar
```

Manual installation

Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder. You can associate tar archives to some GUI programs (not mandatory to use tar), i.e. Archive Viewer: add the type ito settings notebook of arcview.exe. . See below for download link(s).

Following is a list of prerequisites that you have to manually install in order to have the program working:

kLIBC / GCC Runtime Library

You can install the prerequisites with rpm running the following string in a command line:

yum install libc libcx libgcc1 libssp libstdc++6 libstdc++ libsupc++6 libsupc++ libgcc-fwd

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

GNU Tar v. 1.33 (23/1/2021, KO Myung-Hun)
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/archiver/tar-1.33.zip
GNU Tar v. 1.32 (20/5/2019, KO Myung-Hun)
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/archiver/tar-1.32.zip
GNU Tar v. 1.31 (19/1/2019, KO Myung-Hun)
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/archiver/tar-1.31.zip
GNU Tar v. 1.30 (20/12/2017, KO Myung-Hun)
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/archiver/tar-1.30.zip
GNU Tar v. 1.29 (6/6/2016, KO Myung-Hun)
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/archiver/tar-1.29.zip
GNU Tar v. 1.28 (19/1/2016, KO Myung-Hun)
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/archiver/tar-1.28.zip
GNU Tar v. 1.26 (1/1/2012, Paul Smedley (Smedles))
www.dropbox.com/s/86hoy2s1gd5qzx7/tar-1.26-os2-20120101.zip?dl=0	local copy