%general-entities; ]> Tar The Tar package contains an archiving program. &buildtime; 0.2 SBU &diskspace; 10 MB Tar installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed. Prepare Tar for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --libexecdir=/usr/sbin Compile the package: make To test the results, issue: make check. Now install the package: make install Installed programs: rmt and tar rmt rmt is used to remotely manipulate a magnetic tape drive, through an interprocess communication connection. tar tar is used to create and extract files from archives, also known as tarballs.