archive manager Archives

PeaZip – winrar/winzip alternative

PeaZip is a cross-platform portable file archiver, released under the LGPL. PeaZip supports many different archive and compression formats.

File Roller is an archive manager for the GNOME desktop environment. It performs file compression and archiving functions.

Engrampa is an archive manager utility for the MATE Environment. It’s a fork of Archive Manager (File Roller).

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. It operates with the 7z archive format.

Ark is an archive utility within the KDE environment. Ark manages various archive formats, including tar, gzip, bzip2, lha, rar and zip.

Xarchiver is a program for handling archives on Linux and FreeBSD. Xarchiver is free and open source software.

Arqiver is a simple Qt5 archive manager as a front-end for libarchive (bsdtar), gzip and 7z. Arqiver is free and open source software.

Tar is console based software for packaging a set of files as a single archive in tar format. Free and open source software.

Various archive formats can be created, extracted, tested, listed, searched, repacked and compared with patool.

TUI Archiver is a terminal application to list / manage archives. It’s written in Go and published under an open source license.

tarnation is a simple, extensible tar backup/restore utility. It’s free and open source software written in Bash.

tarlz is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) combined implementation of the tar archiver and the lzip compressor.

Linux offers a good range of terminal-based archive managers.

WinZip is a file archiver and compressor. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

DarGUI is a graphical frontend for the Disk ARchiving utility (DAR) that aims to make it easier and quicker to perform common backup tasks.