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+<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
+
<sect2>
<title>Installation of Tar</title>
-<para>To be able to directly use bzip2 files with tar, use the tar
-patch available from the LFS FTP site. This patch will add the -j option
-to tar which works the same as the -z option to tar (which can be used
-for gzip files).</para>
+<para>A patch may be applied to give tar direct support for
+bzip2 files. This patch adds the <emphasis>-j</emphasis> option
+to tar, which is similar to the <emphasis>-z</emphasis> option
+used for gzip files.</para>
<para>Apply the patch by running the following command:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../tar-&tar-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>
-<para>Install Tar by running the following commands:</para>
+<para>Prepare Tar to be compiled:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>LDFLAGS="-static" ./configure --prefix=$LFS/static --disable-nls</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>Finish installing the package:</para>
-<para><screen><userinput>LDFLAGS="-static" ./configure --prefix=$LFS/static --disable-nls &amp;&amp;
-make &amp;&amp;
-make install</userinput></screen></para>
+<para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
</sect2>