You should be able to get a new installation from the binary
distribution:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall tar

Hopefully that should do it.

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 21:26, Richard Stocker wrote:
> Both /usr/bin/gzip and /sw/bin/gzip worked and gave a directory with 
> the same permissions and the same size, 4751360.
> 
> I then tried /sw/bin/tar -xf ~/unzip550 and received the bus error 
> message.
> 
> However, /usr/bin/tar -xf ~/unzip550 worked.
> 
> It would appear the problem lies within the fink tar.
> 
> Regards, Rick
> 
> 
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