# Unarchive question

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/unarchive-question/16231>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [September 15, 2014, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unarchive-question/16231 "2014-09-15T18:39:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tiglath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@Tiglath](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tiglath)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unarchive-question/16231/1 "2014-09-15T18:39:39Z")

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Is there a way to tell unarchive to use /usr/gny/bin/tar instead of /usr/bin/tar?

Because the latter does not work on Solaris 11.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![James\_Cammarata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@James\_Cammarata](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Cammarata)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unarchive-question/16231/2 "2014-09-15T20:31:00Z")

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Currently, there is no option for that module to specify the remote binary to use. In order to work around this, I would recommend creating a symlink on that system so that /usr/bin/tar points to the correct binary you’d like to use.

If you’d like, you can definitely also open a feature request on GitHub to add this parameter to the module.

Thanks!