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What are the best archivers on Linux?
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Best archivers on Linux
Price
Platforms
License
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PeaZip
Free
Windows, MacOS, Linux, BSD
LGPL-3.0-only
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7-Zip
Free
Windows, Unix-like (only CLI)
LGPL-2.1-or-later
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File Roller
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Engrampa
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tar
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Unix-like, Windows
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PeaZip
My Rec
ommendation
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PeaZip
My Recommendation for
PeaZip
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6
Experiences
1
Pros
4
Specs
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Pro
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Open source
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DaringMielikki's Experience
it was one of the best i have ever used and quite stable
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Specs
Platforms:
Windows, MacOS, Linux, BSD
License:
LGPL-3.0-only
User Interface:
GUI
Top
Pro
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Multi-platform
PeaZip is available for Windows and Linux.
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Top
Pro
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Supports over 150 archive types
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Pro
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Supports PAQ8
PAQ8 is very slow to compress, but has the best compression ratio in many benchmarks.
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Free
Recommend
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7-Zip
My Rec
ommendation
for
7-Zip
My Recommendation for
7-Zip
All
9
Experiences
1
Pros
6
Cons
1
Specs
Top
Pro
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Very fast compression/decompression
7z is muli-threaded, allowing it to do very fast compression and decompression.
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Con
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Is only command line for Linux
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LivelyEirene's Experience
Linux only: I uninstalled it after I saw the developers flag it "Do Not Use" for Linux: https://sourceforge.net/p/p7zip/bugs/175/
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Specs
Platforms:
Windows, Unix-like (only CLI)
License:
LGPL-2.1-or-later
Top
Pro
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Free and open source
7-Zip is licensed under GNU LGPL, and the *.7z format has support across all major operating systems. There should be no trouble opening the archives under any operating system, and no need to deal with messages bugging you to register or pay for the app. Source code can be found here.
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Pro
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High compression .7z format
Their own file format .7z that ships with 7-Zip is one of the best compression formats. 7z file format is usually more compact than Zip.
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Pro
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Lightweight
Starts quickly.
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Unobtrusive
No nag screen.
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Pro
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Explorer right-click menu integration
Makes it easy to open any archive file, or create new archives, without having to go open another program first.
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Free
Recommend
18
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File Roller
My Rec
ommendation
for
File Roller
My Recommendation for
File Roller
All
2
Pros
1
Cons
1
Top
Pro
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Well supported
File-roller is the official gnome archive manager and used in other desktop environments too. The large user-base and active development have made it stable.
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Con
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Can't preview 7Zip archives
File Roller (and Engrampa which was forked from File Roller) has to read the whole 7zip archive to show the content.
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Engrampa
My Rec
ommendation
for
Engrampa
My Recommendation for
Engrampa
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tar
My Rec
ommendation
for
tar
My Recommendation for
tar
All
4
Experiences
1
Pros
1
Cons
1
Specs
Top
Pro
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Works from command-line
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Con
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No compression
Tar (tape archiver) was mainly made for tape drives, so it has handy features like split archives. However, it does not feature any compression, so you have to compress the files again with gunzip or bunzip.
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Mariano Alvarez's Experience
Command line is less intuitive than gui interface, but any gui app is as fast, light in resources and cool as typing and running commands in a terminal if you understand the essence of Linux.
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Specs
Platforms:
Unix-like, Windows
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.zip
My Rec
ommendation
for
.zip
My Recommendation for
.zip
All
1
Pros
1
Top
Pro
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Can be opened natively on nearly all operating systems
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Ark
My Rec
ommendation
for
Ark
My Recommendation for
Ark
All
6
Experiences
2
Pros
3
Cons
1
Top
Pro
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Well integrated into KDE
It works nicely on Plasma.
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Con
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Many KDE deps
It needs many KDE libs.
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DaringMielikki's Experience
always had issues with ARK, mystery closing without error or just a bad GUI.
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Pro
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De-deps
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Prem Kumar's Experience
All archive managers mostly same for me. As plasma is my goto DE, I just use ARK which is the default archive manager that KDE provides.
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Pro
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Traditional UI
It has a traditional User interface.
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1
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Xarchiver
My Rec
ommendation
for
Xarchiver
My Recommendation for
Xarchiver
All
5
Experiences
1
Pros
1
Cons
3
Top
Pro
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Can show a file list without loading the whole archive
For 7zip-files (perhaps other types too) while File Roller cannot do this.
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Con
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Segfaults when creating large archives
When creating large archives it crashes and doesn't show you any helpful message (unless you started it from the terminal you will get something like "[1] 14858 segmentation fault (core dumped) xarchiver").
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Distracted's Experience
I liked it initially, but after using it for a while I just cannot recommend it any more.
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Con
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Doesn't show a progress UI while it's creating an archive
You have to "guess" when it's done.
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Con
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Not in active development
Xarchiver has only one maintainer and it seems he's not working on it actively.
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