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Engrampa is an archive manager for the MATE environment. It is only a front-end (a graphical interface) to archiving programs like tar and zip. The supported file types are: * Tar archives uncompressed (.tar) or compressed with gzip (.tar.gz , .tgz), bzip (.tar.bz , .tbz), bzip2 (.tar.bz2 , .tbz2), compress (.tar.Z , .taz), lzop (.tar.lzo , .tzo) * Zip archives (.zip) * Jar archives (.jar , .ear , .war) * Lha archives (.lzh) * Rar archives (.rar) * Single files compressed with gzip, bzip, bzip2, compress, lzop Engrampa also has a document viewer based on bonobo that lets you view files of any type for which you have a viewer. Former WinZip users may find this program useful. It serves the same purpose.

Gcab is a utility and library mainly made to create Cabinet files, using GObject/GIO API and provides GIR bindings. - creation supports plain and basic MSZIP compression - can open and list files from cabinet, no extraction

Inno Setup is a tool to create installers for Microsoft Windows applications. innoextract allows to extract such installers under non-windows systems without running the actual installer using Wine.

File Roller is an archive manager for the GNOME environment. It is only a front-end (a graphical interface) to archiving programs like tar and zip. The supported file types are: * Tar archives uncompressed (.tar) or compressed with gzip (.tar.gz , .tgz), bzip (.tar.bz , .tbz), bzip2 (.tar.bz2 , .tbz2), compress (.tar.Z , .taz), lzop (.tar.lzo , .tzo) * Zip archives (.zip) * Jar archives (.jar , .ear , .war) * Lha archives (.lzh) * Rar archives (.rar) * Single files compressed with gzip, bzip, bzip2, compress, lzop File Roller also has a document viewer based on bonobo that lets you view files of any type for which you have a viewer. Former WinZip users may find this program useful. It serves the same purpose.

nomarch extracts files from the old `.arc' archive format. It can also list and test such archives. (nomarch is primarily intended as a `replacement' for the non-Free `arc' program.)

Archive::Extract::Libarchive has a similar interface to Archive::Extract, but instead of using Perl modules and external commands, it uses the libarchive C libary. It supports many different archive formats and compression algorithms and is fast.

Mark Adler, maintainer of popular zlib library has released a multicore capable Parallel Implementation of GZip, nicknamed PIGZ. Version 1.5 implements nearly all of gzip's functionality, including decompression of .gz and .Z (Unix compress) files.

Python module implementing LZMA Utils' liblzma API PylibLZMA provides a python interface for the liblzma library to read and write data that has been compressed or can be decompressed by Lasse Collin's LZMA Utils.

qpress is a portable file archiver using QuickLZ and designed to utilize fast storage systems to their max. It's often faster than file copy because the destination is smaller than the source.

Ruby bindings for Libarchive. Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants, several cpio formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants.