For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Tar-1.13.25 in Chapter 6.
Tar (1.13.25):
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/
Tar is an archiving program designed to store and extract files from an archive file known as a tar file.
Installed programs: rmt and tar
rmt is used to remotely manipulate a magnetic tape drive, through an interprocess communication connection.
tar is used to create and extract files from archives, also known as tarballs.
Tar depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.