Dar is a command line tool to backup and create archives. Here are the steps to install Dar on an OpenBSD system.
Before proceeding, ensure that the system meets the following requirements:
Dar requires a couple of dependencies to be installed on the system. In this case, the required dependencies are bzip2 and zlib. They can be installed by running:
pkg_add bzip2 zlib
To download Dar, use the command ftp to retrieve the source code from the Dar official website. Run the following command to download:
ftp http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/dar/dar/2.6.13/dar-2.6.13.tar.gz
Extract the downloaded archive using tar -xvf command as follows:
tar -xvf dar-2.6.13.tar.gz
Move to the extracted dar-2.6.13 directory, configure and make Dar executable.
cd dar-2.6.13
./configure
make
make install
After running the make install command, Dar will be installed and you can verify by using the following command:
dar -V
This will display the version of Dar installed, confirming that the installation was successful.
Dar is now installed and ready for use. You can start using the command line tool to create backups and archives.
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