Lunzip is a 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 applications such as software installers that need only to decompress files, not compress them. Lunzip is intended to be fully compatible with the regular lzip package.

Lzop is a file compressor which is very similar to gzip. Lzop uses the LZO data compression library for compression services, and its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed (at the cost of some compression ratio).

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

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.

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

innoextract allows extracting Inno Setup installers under non-Windows systems without running the actual installer using wine.

The purpose of libmspack is to provide both compression and decompression of some loosely related file formats used by Microsoft.

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.

Zutils is a collection of utilities able to process any combination of compressed and uncompressed files transparently. If any given file, including standard input, is compressed, its decompressed content is used instead.

zcat, zcmp, zdiff, and zgrep are improved replacements for the shell scripts provided by GNU gzip. ztest tests the integrity of supported compressed files. zupdate recompresses files with lzip, similar to gzip's znew.

Supported compression formats are bzip2, gzip, lzip, and xz. Zutils uses external compressors: the compressor to be used for each format is configurable at run time, and must be installed separately.

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.

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.

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.

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

Draco is a library for compressing and decompressing 3D geometric meshes and point clouds. It is intended to improve the storage and transmission of 3D graphics.

Blosc is a high performance compressor optimized for binary data. It has been designed to transmit data to the processor cache faster than the traditional, non-compressed, direct memory fetch approach via a memcpy() system call. Blosc is meant not only to reduce the size of large datasets on-disk or in-memory, but also to accelerate memory-bound computations.

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.

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

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.

libtar is a C library for manipulating POSIX tar files. It handles adding and extracting files to/from a tar archive.

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