Tar program - "statically compiled" - possible?

[enragedcow]

My workplace uses Zenworks imaging, which is built on suse linux. I know little to nothing about Linux, but I'm trying to learn.

The zenworks boot CD is a pretty bare Linux install, and I've had a lot of headaches getting a few 'tricks' to work. Right now, I'm in dire need of getting tar to work. However, when I try and run it, I get the error:

tar: /lib/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by tar)

Which, if I understand correctly, just means my version of libc.so.6 isn't the right version, so to speak.

I can think of two possible solutions to this problem:

1 - Recompile the kernel and build a new boot CD
This won't work though, for many reasons (not the least of which being my newbness)

2 - Can I download the source code for tar, and recompile it as a static program, so that it doesn't need to pull from libc.so.6? Is this possible, and if so, how would I do it?


I've tried searching everywhere for this... but when you search for "tar" you get a bajillion results since nearly every program and source package are in tar format

THANKS!!

[guruhost]

Have a look at rpmseek.com under dependencies (type libc.so.6) to find out which package you need to install to solve your problem.