Hi Pavel,

Thank you for your help but unfortunately we cannot connect our linux
system to the Internet.  Is there an alternate solution you can suggest.

Regards,
Rajiv
On Nov 27, 2015 8:43 AM, "Pavel Raiskup" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Friday 27 of November 2015 08:29:57 Rajiv.H.Gagwani wrote:
> > I am trying to update tar from 1.15 to 1.23 on a Centos 5.1 machine but I
> > am unable to. There are alot of dependencies missing. Can you please help
> > me out.
>
> I would be careful to replace system tar with newer version.  Some system
> tools could depend on specific old behavior of 1.15.
>
> Otherwise I don't think there are some special new dependencies, what
> usually works for me:
>
>   $ sudo yum-builddep tar-*.src.rpm
>   $ rpmbuild --rebuild tar-*.src.rpm
>
> There is also copr repository where latest git tar is (from time to time)
> rebuilt (including epel5):
> https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/praiskup/tar/
>
> Pavel
>
>

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