Help me plz
hello guys...
im newbie to Linux and i need to update my tar. when i type this command : tar --version i see that the version is 1.15 but i need the tar version 1.26 and also i don't know how i should install it... please help me ,i really need this. my Linux is Centos 5.6 x64_86 thanks in advance. |
please use decent thread titles in future. "Help me plz" is of no use whatsoever.
CentOS 5 ships wth tar 1.15, if you want a different version you'd need to compile it yourself. Any significant issues from the 1.15 version will have been backported into it. http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/ I doubt this is what you actually want, why would you care about the version of tar you're using? |
how should i compile?
what code should use to compile? i need better guidelines not a link... look i wanna install NPM on my cent os 5.6 x64 and due to developer sayings i have to update my tar to the newer version... would u mind plz help me step by step? regards |
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/#downloading
Go to that link and download tar-1.25.tar.gz It should download to your 'downloads' folder or where ever you have it configured to download. Once you have that you do this tar -xvzf tar-1.26.tar.gz then you want to cd into the directory the tar ball will create . (should be tar-1.26) it will be a folder once inside that folder run (as root) ./configure make make install and your all set |
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Nearly all stable Linux OS uses version 1.2x to 1.25. ( Slackware 13.37 has 1.26 ) Debian Sid unstable and Fedora 16 come with tar-1.26. . |
well the reasons appear genuine: http://davestevens.us/articles/setti...action-revised https://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues/1286 you wouldn't expect issues with tar these days, but it does seem fair enough.
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