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In computing, the '''tar file format''' is a type of archive file format: the Tape ["ARchive"] format. These files are produced by the ["Unix"] command tar and were standardized by POSIX.1-1998 and later POSIX.1-2001. In computing, the '''tar file format''' is a type of archive file format: the *T*ape *AR*chive format. These files are produced by the ["Unix"] command tar and were standardized by POSIX.1-1998 and later POSIX.1-2001.
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'''Commonly a tar file is referred to as a tarball''' . '''Commonly a tar file is referred to as a tarball . Tarballs are ["source"] code''', not binary ["image"] DebianPackage s. DebianPackage s can be downloaded and installed using AptGet .
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==Filename extension
*.tar , for tar file.
*.tar.gz or .tgz (only when compressed by gzip)
*.tar.bz2 or .tbz (only when compressed by bzip2)
=== Filename extension ===
 * .tar , for tar file.
 * .tar.gz or .tgz (only when compressed by gzip)
 * .tar.bz2 or .tbz (only when compressed by bzip2)
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==[MIME]-Type
*application/x-tar
=== MIME-Type ===
 * application/x-tar
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== Installation ==
After unpacking and uncompressing, the installation procedure is the standard GNU one:
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$ ./configure
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See: {Wikipedia:tarball} $ ["make"]

$ make install

See also:
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tarball Wikipedia article about tarball].
 * ["FileRoller"] in DebianGnome, that can uncompress and unpacked files.
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{i} CategoryRedundant: ["targz"]

In computing, the tar file format is a type of archive file format: the *T*ape *AR*chive format. These files are produced by the ["Unix"] command tar and were standardized by POSIX.1-1998 and later POSIX.1-2001.

It is used widely to archive and unarchive files, which means to accumulate a large collection of files into a single archive file (packer), while preserving FileSystem information such as user and group permissions, dates, and ["directory"] structures.

Commonly a tar file is referred to as a tarball . Tarballs are ["source"] code, not binary ["image"] DebianPackage s. DebianPackage s can be downloaded and installed using ?AptGet .

In the Unix philosophy of "one job, one program", it does not support compression directly. If you then want to compress your archive, you use a separate program that is specialised in compression. tar is most commonly used in tandem with an external compression utility such as ["gzip"] or ["bzip2"], since it has no built in data compression facilities. These compression utilities generally only compress a single file, hence the pairing with tar, which can produce a single file from many files.

Filename extension

  • .tar , for tar file.
  • .tar.gz or .tgz (only when compressed by gzip)
  • .tar.bz2 or .tbz (only when compressed by bzip2)

MIME-Type

  • application/x-tar

Installation

After unpacking and uncompressing, the installation procedure is the standard GNU one:

$ ./configure

$ ["make"]

$ make install

See also:


{i} CategoryRedundant: ["targz"]