Tarlz is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) combined implementation of the tar archiver and the lzip compressor. Tarlz creates, lists, and extracts archives in a simplified and safer variant of the POSIX pax format compressed with lzip, keeping the alignment between tar members and lzip members. The resulting multimember tar.lz archive is fully backward compatible with standard tar tools like GNU tar, which treat it like any other tar.lz archive. Tarlz can append files to the end of such compressed archives.

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.

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.

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

lbzip2 is a multi-threaded compression utility with support for the bzip2 compressed file format. lbzip2 can process standard bz2 files in parallel. It uses POSIX threading model (pthreads), which allows it to take full advantage of symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) systems. It has been proven to scale linearly, even to over one hundred processor cores. lbzip2 is fully compatible with bzip2 – both at file format and command line level.

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.

This package provides the reference implementation of Brotli, a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression.

The specification of the Brotli Compressed Data Format is defined in RFC 7932.

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.

This package provides the reference implementation of Brotli, a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression.

The specification of the Brotli Compressed Data Format is defined in RFC 7932.

Squashfs is a highly compressed read-only file system for Linux. It compresses files, inodes, and directories with one of several compressors. All blocks are packed to minimize the data overhead, and block sizes of between 4K and 1M are supported. It is intended to be used for archival use, for live media, and for embedded systems where low overhead is needed. This package allows you to create and extract such file systems.

Pbzip2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines. The output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2 v1.0.2 (i.e. anything compressed with pbzip2 can be decompressed with bzip2).

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.

GNU sharutils is a package for creating and manipulating shell archives that can be readily emailed. A shell archive is a file that can be processed by a Bourne-type shell to unpack the original collection of files. This package is mostly for compatibility and historical interest.

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.

ISA-L is a collection of optimized low-level functions targeting storage applications. ISA-L includes:

• Erasure codes: fast block Reed-Solomon type erasure codes for any encode/decode matrix;

• CRC: fast implementations of cyclic redundancy check. Six different polynomials supported: iscsi32, ieee32, t10dif, ecma64, iso64, jones64;

• Raid: calculate and operate on XOR and P+Q parity found in common RAID implementations;

• Compression: fast deflate-compatible data compression;

• De-compression: fast inflate-compatible data compression;

• igzip: command line application like gzip, accelerated with ISA-L.

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

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

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.

XZ Utils is free general-purpose data compression software with high compression ratio. XZ Utils were written for POSIX-like systems, but also work on some not-so-POSIX systems. XZ Utils are the successor to LZMA Utils.

The core of the XZ Utils compression code is based on LZMA SDK, but it has been modified quite a lot to be suitable for XZ Utils. The primary compression algorithm is currently LZMA2, which is used inside the .xz container format. With typical files, XZ Utils create 30 % smaller output than gzip and 15 % smaller output than bzip2.

ECM is a utility that converts ECM files, i.e., CD data files with their error correction data losslessly rearranged for better compression, to their original, binary CD format.

Clzip is a compressor and decompressor for files in the lzip compression format (.lz), written as a single small C tool with no dependencies. This makes it well-suited to embedded and other systems without a C++ compiler, or for use in other applications like package managers. Clzip is intended to be fully compatible with the regular lzip package.

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.

LZFSE is a Lempel-Ziv style data compression algorithm using Finite State Entropy coding. It targets similar compression rates at higher compression and decompression speed compared to Deflate using Zlib.

UnZip is an extraction utility for archives compressed in .zip format, also called "zipfiles".

UnZip lists, tests, or extracts files from a .zip archive. The default behaviour (with no options) is to extract into the current directory, and subdirectories below it, all files from the specified zipfile. UnZip recreates the stored directory structure by default.