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<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>Apply the patch by running the following command:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../tar-1.13.patch</userinput></screen></para>

<para>Install Tar by running the following commands:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=$LFS/static \
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--disable-nls --libexecdir=$LFS/static/bin &amp;&amp; 
make LDFLAGS=-static &amp;&amp;
make install</userinput></screen></para>

</sect2>