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authorMichael Kuhn <michael.kuhn@ovgu.de>2020-08-21 00:13:47 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-08-20 17:13:47 -0500
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docs: List tar and some compressors in prerequisites (#18169)
Fixes #18152
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@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ before Spack is run:
#. Python 2 (2.6 or 2.7) or 3 (3.5 - 3.8) to run Spack
#. A C/C++ compiler for building
#. The ``make`` executable for building
+#. The ``tar``, ``gzip``, ``bzip2``, ``xz`` and optionally ``zstd``
+ executables for extracting source code
+#. The ``patch`` command to apply patches
#. The ``git`` and ``curl`` commands for fetching
#. If using the ``gpg`` subcommand, ``gnupg2`` is required