A patch may be applied to give tar direct support for bzip2 files. This patch adds the -j option to tar, which is similar to the -z option used for gzip files. Apply the patch by running the following command: patch -Np1 -i ../tar-&tar-patch-version;.patch Prepare Tar to be compiled: LDFLAGS="-static" ./configure --prefix=$LFS/static --disable-nls Continue with compiling the package: make Finish installing the package: make install