How do I install tar 1.20?

10.04 apt versions

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Solution 1

Hardy, the long term version from 2008 has 1.19. I know it is not the same as 1.20 but I guess it is the closest you can get using canonicals blessed bits. Try to download the three files from the right side of this page: http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/tar and use dpkg-buildpackage to make a package suitable for your distribution. After that, you need to force the installation with dpkg -f -i because you're probably downgrading.

I am left wondering why would you do such a thing. Is 1.22 giving you a hard time?

Solution 2

If it is not in the repositories and you can't find any PPA for it then you'll have to build from source.

You can get the source here.

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I have tar 1.22 installed and I need tar 1.20. I tried:
```
sudo apt-get install tar=1.20
```
but I got:

Version '1.20' for 'tar' was not found

When I looked more closely it turned out that the current version is not just 1.22, but 1.22-2ubuntu1. So I tried:
```
sudo apt-get install tar=1.20-2ubuntu1
```
But still got the that error message.

Any idea how do I install tar 1.20 on my Ubuntu?