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The tar utility is already included as part of Darwin

Typing tar --version in the terminal yields the following:tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1

If you really want the latest version (v 1.20) , download the source tarball from here:

GNU tar

And do the usual configure, make, install sequence to install it on your system. If you need help doing this, let us know.
 
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