minizip-ng is a zip manipulation library written in C, forked from the zip manipulation library found in the zlib distribution.

Xarchiver is a front-end to various command line archiving tools. It uses GTK+ tool-kit and is designed to be desktop-environment independent. Supported formats are 7z, ARJ, bzip2, gzip, LHA, lzma, lzop, RAR, RPM, DEB, tar, and ZIP. It cannot perform functions for archives, whose archiver is not installed.

LZO is a data compression library which is suitable for data de-/compression in real-time. This means it favours speed over compression ratio.

LZO is written in ANSI C. Both the source code and the compressed data format are designed to be portable across platforms.

unrar-free is a free software version of the non-free unrar utility. This program is a simple command-line front-end to libarchive, and can list and extract not only RAR archives but also other formats supported by libarchive. It does not rival the non-free unrar in terms of features, but special care has been taken to ensure it meets most user's needs.

xdelta encodes only the differences between two binary files using the VCDIFF algorithm and patch file format described in RFC 3284. It can also be used to apply such patches. xdelta is similar to diff and patch, but is not limited to plain text and does not generate human-readable output.

Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) lossless data compressor and decompressor that uses the lzip file format (.lz). Files produced by plzip are fully compatible with lzip and can be rescued with lziprecover. On multiprocessor machines, plzip can compress and decompress large files much faster than lzip, at the cost of a slightly reduced compression ratio (0.4% to 2%). The number of usable threads is limited by file size: on files of only a few MiB, plzip is no faster than lzip. Files that were compressed with regular lzip will also not be decompressed faster by plzip, unless the -b option was used: lzip usually produces single-member files which can't be decompressed in parallel.

Zopfli Compression Algorithm is a compression library programmed in C to perform very good, but slow, deflate or zlib compression. ZopfliCompress supports the deflate, gzip and zlib output formats. This library can only compress, not decompress; existing zlib or deflate libraries can decompress the data.

The zchunk compressed file format allows splitting a file into independent chunks. This makes it possible to retrieve only changed chunks when downloading a new version of the file, and also makes zchunk files efficient over rsync. Along with the library, this package provides the following utilities:

unzck

To decompress a zchunk file.

zck

To compress a new zchunk file, or re-compress an existing one.

zck_delta_size

To calculate the difference between two zchunk files.

zck_gen_zdict

To create a dictionary for a zchunk file.

zck_read_header

To read a zchunk header.

zckdl

To download a zchunk file.

Fcrackzip is a Zip file password cracker.

Archive huge numbers of files, or split massive tar archives into smaller chunks.

The main command is aunpack which extracts files from an archive. The other commands provided are apack (to create archives), als (to list files in archives), and acat (to extract files to standard out). As atool invokes external programs to handle the archives, not all commands may be supported for a certain type of archives.

The Ultimate Packer for eXecutables (UPX) is an executable file compressor. UPX typically reduces the file size of programs and shared libraries by around 50%--70%, thus reducing disk space, network load times, download times, and other distribution and storage costs.

Parallel Zstandard (PZstandard or pzstd) is a multi-threaded implementation of the Zstandard compression algorithm. It is fully compatible with the original Zstandard file format and command-line interface, and can be used as a drop-in replacement.

Compression is distributed over multiple processor cores to improve performance, as is the decompression of data compressed in this manner. Data compressed by other implementations will only be decompressed by two threads: one performing the actual decompression, the other input and output.

QPACK is the compression mechanism used by HTTP/3 to compress HTTP headers. It's based on specification QPACK Internet-Draft.

SfArk extractor converts SoundFonts in the compressed legacy sfArk file format to the uncompressed sf2 format.

bzip2 is a freely available, patent free (see below), high-quality data compressor. It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques (the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst being around twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression.

GNU Gzip provides data compression and decompression utilities; the typical extension is ".gz". Unlike the "zip" format, it compresses a single file; as a result, it is often used in conjunction with "tar", resulting in ".tar.gz" or ".tgz", etc.

QATzip is a library which builds on top of the Intel QuickAssist Technology user space library, to provide extended accelerated compression and decompression services by offloading the actual compression and decompression request(s) to the Intel Chipset Series. QATzip produces data using the standard gzip format (RFC1952) with extended headers or lz4 blocks with lz4 frame format. The data can be decompressed with a compliant gzip or lz4 implementation. QATzip is designed to take full advantage of the performance provided by Intel QuickAssist Technology.

QuaZIP is a simple C++ wrapper over Gilles Vollant's ZIP/UNZIP package that can be used to access ZIP archives. It uses Trolltech's Qt toolkit.

QuaZIP allows you to access files inside ZIP archives using QIODevice API, and that means that you can also use QTextStream, QDataStream or whatever you would like to use on your zipped files.

QuaZIP provides complete abstraction of the ZIP/UNZIP API, for both reading from and writing to ZIP archives.

(N)compress provides the original compress and uncompress programs that used to be the de facto UNIX standard for compressing and uncompressing files. These programs implement a fast, simple Lempel-Ziv (LZW) file compression algorithm.

minizip-ng is a zip manipulation library written in C, forked from the zip manipulation library found in the zlib distribution.

FastJar is an attempt to create a much faster replacement for Sun's jar utility. Instead of being written in Java, FastJar is written in C.

Libdeflate is a library for fast, whole-buffer DEFLATE-based compression and decompression. The supported formats are:

1. DEFLATE (raw)

2. zlib (a.k.a. DEFLATE with a zlib wrapper)

3. gzip (a.k.a. DEFLATE with a gzip wrapper)

gzstream is a small library for providing zlib functionality in a C++ iostream.