After wgetting and attempting to install the .deb through the package manager with the cryptic error 'tar failed to install' (gee, thanks), I tried doing it through dpkg --install at the command line. It tells me that it will conflict with 'busybox' and cannot be installed. As tempting as dpkg --remove busybox is, I'm thinking it's not a great idea.

josiah, how did you go about installing that .deb? I'll just install GNUtar as a backup plan, but I was curious how you managed to do it.