The app-arch category contains tools for archiving, compressing and uncompressing files or groups of files.
| advancecomp | Recompress ZIP, PNG and MNG, considerably improving compression |
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| afio | makes cpio-format archives and deals somewhat gracefully with input data corruption |
| alien | Converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and slackware tgz file formats |
| arc | Create & extract files from DOS .ARC files |
| arj | Utility for opening arj archives |
| atool | a script for managing file archives of various types |
| bloscpack | Command line interface for Blosc compression |
| bsdsfv | all-in-one SFV checksum utility |
| bzip2 | A high-quality data compressor used extensively by Gentoo Linux |
| cabextract | Extracts files from Microsoft cabinet archive files |
| cfv | Utility to test and create .sfv, .csv, .crc and md5sum files |
| cksfv | SFV checksum utility (simple file verification) |
| cpio | A file archival tool which can also read and write tar files |
| createrepo | Creates a common rpm-metadata repository |
| deb2targz | Convert a .deb file to a .tar.gz archive |
| defluff | deflate huffman optimizer |
| deltarpm | tools to create and apply deltarpms |
| dpkg | Package maintenance system for Debian |
| duff | Command-line utility for quickly finding duplicates in a given set of files |
| dump | Dump/restore ext2fs backup utilities |
| engrampa | Engrampa archive manager for MATE |
| fastjar | A jar program written in C |
| file-roller | Archive manager for GNOME |
| freeze | Freeze/unfreeze compression program |
| funzix | unpacker for the bogus ZIX format |
| gcab | Library and tool for working with Microsoft Cabinet (CAB) files |
| gtk-splitter | Split files into smaller pieces and combine them back together |
| gzip | Standard GNU compressor |
| hardlink | A tool which replaces copies of a file with hardlinks |
| innoextract | A tool to unpack installers created by Inno Setup |
| ipkg-utils | Tools for working with the ipkg binary package format |
| lbzip2 | Parallel bzip2 utility |
| lcab | CAB file creation tool |
| lha | Utility for creating and opening lzh archives |
| libarchive | BSD tar command |
| libpar2 | A library for par2, extracted from par2cmdline |
| lrzip | Long Range ZIP or Lzma RZIP optimized for compressing large files |
| lz4 | Extremely Fast Compression algorithm |
| lzip | lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm |
| lziprecover | Lziprecover is a data recovery tool and decompressor for files in the lzip compressed data format |
| lzlib | Library for lzip compression |
| lzma | LZMA Stream Compressor from the SDK |
| lzop | Utility for fast (even real-time) compression/decompression |
| makeself | shell script that generates a self-extractible tar.gz |
| mscompress | Microsoft compress.exe/expand.exe compatible (de)compressor |
| mt-st | control magnetic tape drive operation |
| ncompress | Another uncompressor for compatibility |
| p7zip | Port of 7-Zip archiver for Unix |
| par | Parchive archive fixing tool |
| par2cmdline | A PAR-2.0 file verification and repair tool |
| patool | Portable archive file manager |
| pax | pax (Portable Archive eXchange) is the POSIX standard archive tool |
| pbzip2 | Parallel bzip2 (de)compressor using libbz2 |
| pdlzip | Public-domain version of lzip compressor |
| pdv | build a self-extracting and self-installing binary package |
| pet2tgz | Puppy Linux .pet to .tar.gz converter |
| pigz | A parallel implementation of gzip |
| pixz | Parallel Indexed XZ compressor |
| plzip | Parallel lzip compressor |
| pure-sfv | utility to test and create .sfv files and create .par files |
| pxz | parallel LZMA compressor (no parallel decompression!) |
| rar | RAR compressor/uncompressor |
| rpm | Red Hat Package Management Utils |
| rpm2targz | Convert a .rpm file to a .tar.gz archive |
| rzip | Compression program for large files |
| sharutils | Tools to deal with shar archives |
| snappy | A high-speed compression/decompression library by Google |
| star | An enhanced (world's fastest) tar, as well as enhanced mt/rmt |
| stuffit | Aladdin Software's StuffIt and StuffIt Expander |
| tapeutils | Utilities for manipulation of tapes and tape image files |
| tar | Use this to make tarballs :) |
| tardelta | Generate a tarball of differences between two tarballs |
| tardy | A tar post-processor |
| tarsync | Delta compression suite for using/generating binary patches |
| threadzip | threaded compressor logic for zlib/lzma |
| torrentzip | Create identical zip archives over multiple systems |
| unace | ACE unarchiver |
| unadf | Extract files from Amiga adf disk images |
| unar | unpacker for various archiving formats, e.g. rar v3 |
| unarj | Utility for opening arj archives |
| undms | Decompress Amiga DMS disk images to ADF |
| unlzx | Unarchiver for Amiga LZX archives |
| unmakeself | Makeself archive extractor |
| unp | Script for unpacking various file formats |
| unrar | Uncompress rar files |
| unrar-gpl | Free rar unpacker for old (pre v3) rar files |
| unrpa | Ren'Py's RPA data file extractor |
| unshield | InstallShield CAB file extractor |
| unzip | unzipper for pkzip-compressed files |
| upx-bin | Ultimate Packer for eXecutables (binary version with proprietary NRV compression) |
| upx-ucl | Ultimate Packer for eXecutables (free version using UCL compression and not NRV) |
| vimball | a command-line vimball archive extractor |
| xar | An easily extensible archive format |
| xarchiver | a GTK+ based and advanced archive manager that can be used with Thunar |
| xdms | xDMS - Amiga DMS disk image decompressor |
| xz-utils | utils for managing LZMA compressed files |
| zip | Info ZIP (encryption support) |
| zoo | Manipulate archives of files in compressed form |
| zopfli | Very good, but slow, deflate or zlib compression |
| zpaq | Journaling incremental deduplicating archiving compressor |
| zpaq-extras | A set of additional compression profiles for app-arch/zpaq |
| zstd | zstd fast compression library |