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Justin
Asked: 2011-09-03 14:18:53 +0800 CST

CentOS 5.6 Update Version Of Tar

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I am running CentOS 5.6 and for some ungodly reason, the version of tar is from 2004, and not compatible with the node package manager (NPM). How in the world can I update it? Is there an additional yum repository I can add, so I can simply execute yum update tar.

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2 Answers

  1. The CentOS6 package fails dependencies on 5.6, so, you probably will need to build it yourself, either nicely packaged or not. I don't seen an updated "tar" package up at Dag or Karan.

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  2. Yes, on my RHEL 5.x system, the package is called tar.x86_64. So yum update tar will fetch the update if there is one available.

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