Zip is a compression and file packaging/archive utility. Zip is useful for packaging a set of files for distribution, for archiving files, and for saving disk space by temporarily compressing unused files or directories. Zip puts one or more compressed files into a single ZIP archive, along with information about the files (name, path, date, time of last modification, protection, and check information to verify file integrity). An entire directory structure can be packed into a ZIP archive with a single command.

Zip has one compression method (deflation) and can also store files without compression. Zip automatically chooses the better of the two for each file. Compression ratios of 2:1 to 3:1 are common for text files.

Minizip is a minimalistic library that supports compressing, extracting and viewing ZIP archives. This version is extracted from the zlib source.

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

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.

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.

Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not aim for maximum compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; instead, it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. For instance, compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster for most inputs, but the resulting compressed files are anywhere from 20% to 100% bigger.

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.

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.

ZPAQ is a command-line archiver for realistic situations with many duplicate and already compressed files. It backs up only those files modified since the last update. All previous versions remain untouched and can be independently recovered. Identical files are only stored once (known as de-duplication). Archives can also be encrypted.

ZPAQ is intended to back up user data, not entire operating systems. It ignores owner and group IDs, ACLs, extended attributes, or special file types like devices, sockets, or named pipes. It does not follow or restore symbolic links or junctions, and always follows hard links.

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.

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.

7-zip is a command-line file compressor that supports a number of archive formats and features self-extracting archives.

The existing XZ Utils provide great compression in the .xz file format, but they produce just one big block of compressed data. Pixz instead produces a collection of smaller blocks which makes random access to the original data possible and can compress in parallel. This is especially useful for large tarballs.

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.

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).

SfArkLib is a C++ library for decompressing SoundFont files compressed with the sfArk algorithm.

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.

LZ4 is a lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed at 400 MB/s per core (0.16 Bytes/cycle). It also features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core (0.71 Bytes/cycle). A high compression derivative, called LZ4_HC, is also provided. It trades CPU time for compression ratio.

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.

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.

Compton is a compositor for the Xorg display server and a for of xcompmgr-dana, which implements some changes like:

• OpenGL backend (--backend glx), in addition to the old X Render backend.

• Inactive window transparency (-i) and dimming (--inactive-dim).

• Menu transparency (-m, thanks to Dana).

• Shadows are now enabled for argb windows, e.g terminals with transparency

• Removed serverside shadows (and simple compositing) to clean the code, the only option that remains is clientside shadows.

• Configuration files (see the man page for more details).

• Colored shadows (--shadow-[red/green/blue]).

• A new fade system.

• VSync support (not always working).

• Blur of background of transparent windows, window color inversion (bad in performance).

• Some more options...

Picom is a standalone compositor for Xorg, suitable for use with window managers that do not provide compositing.

Picom is a fork of compton, which is a fork of xcompmgr-dana, which in turn is a fork of xcompmgr.

This package helps to manage personal configuration files across multiple machines.

Konsave is CLI that lets you backup your dotfiles and switch to other ones. Features:

• storing configurations in profiles

• exporting profiles to '.knsv' files

• import profiles from '.knsv' files

• official support for KDE Plasma