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<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Tar</title>
+<para>Apply a patch to fix some issues with the test suite when using
+GCC-&gcc-version;:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-gcc4_fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Tar has a bug when the <parameter>-S</parameter> option is used
with files larger than 4 GB. The following patch properly fixes this issue:</para>