code:

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tar: Unable to set file uid/gid of <directory>/<directory>/<filename> <No such file or directory>

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This is caused by tar not extracting symbolic links correctly. You may not see this very often, but it can and does occur.

Solution:
Get the latest version of gnu tar with

code:

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wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.tar.gz
tar -zxvf tar-1.13.tar.gz
cd tar-1.13
cp /usr/libexec/config.guess ./
cp /usr/libexec/config.sub ./
./configure
make

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now, you can either choose to make install it or do what I did and just run it from the src directory. I haven't tested the make install, but it should work.
-j