On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 09:29 -0500, Leonard Isham wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:06:30 +0100, Erik P. Olsen <erik@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Excuse me for asking a newbie question, but I am a little uneasy about > > what to do. > > > > I am running FC3 which comes with GNU tar version 1.14. I plan to > > upgrade it to version 1.15.1 which comes in tar format only. What is the > > recommended way of installing it? Should I remove it first and risk that > > the installation may require tar processing? > > Take a moment and think about this. > > 1. You want to upgrade tar > 2. The new version of tar comes as a tarball > 3. If you delete/remove tar then how are you going to read the tarball? I have no problem in untaring the tarball. > 4. Download the new tar's tarball and untar it look at the > documentation and determine how you wat to proceed from there. Sorry, I shouldn't have asked the question. I was just looking for a friendly advice. > > Above all if you are unsure and can't risk messing up your system > Then consider how bad you need the latest tar, and if you can wait for > the RPM. -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen
