Installation of Tar If a user wants to be able to directly use bzip2 files with tar, he can 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 can be used for gzip files). Apply the patch by running the following command:
cd src && patch -i ../../gnutarpatch.txt && cd ..
Install Tar by running the following commands from the toplevel directory:
./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/bin && make && make install && mv /usr/bin/tar /bin