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+<sect2>
+<title>Installation of Tar</title>
+
+<para>
+If you want to be able to directly use bzip2 files with tar, use the tar
+patch avaiable from the LFS FTP site. This patch will add the -y option
+to tar which works the same as the -z option to tar (which you can use
+for gzip files).
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Apply the patch by running the following command:
+</para>
+
+<blockquote><literallayout>
+
+ <userinput>cd src &amp;&amp;</userinput>
+ <userinput>patch -i ../../gnutarpatch.txt &amp;&amp;</userinput>
+ <userinput>cd ..</userinput>
+
+</literallayout></blockquote>
+
+<para>
+Install Tar by running the following commands from the toplevel
+directory:
+</para>
+
+<blockquote><literallayout>
+
+ <userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/bin
+ &amp;&amp;</userinput>
+ <userinput>make &amp;&amp;</userinput>
+ <userinput>make install &amp;&amp;</userinput>
+ <userinput>mv /usr/bin/tar /bin</userinput>
+
+</literallayout></blockquote>
+
+</sect2>
+