I was unable to install the gnutar ipk linked above using WebOS QuickInstall.
It said it had installed it without error, but it never shows up on the device.
I ended up having to unpack the ipk with gunzip and tar (or PC version of gnutar with -xzvf flags)
and copy the contents of opt/libexec and opt/bin in the archive, to Pre's media
share and then copy from there to Pre's /opt/libexec and /opt/bin
in root shell and chmod appropriately.

Running the gnutar command as shown above, but without z compression flag
created a tar archive of 395 Megs. Adding compression burns a lot
of CPU, takes a *long* time but only nets about 2:1 compression ratio.

ian

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