Utilities

• kArchiver
  kArchiver is an little utility for Linux & KDE. Its goal is to make your work with all compressed files easy. With kArchiver, you can create tar.gz, tar.bz2, .zip ... files just by dropping the...
  
• p7zip
  p7zip is a quick port of 7z.exe and 7za.exe for Unix. 7-Zip is a file archiver with highest compression ratio. ...
  
• gnochive
  gnochive is a GNOME frontend for all common archivers under Linux. ...
  
• jaZIP
  jaZip is a program for maintaining your Iomega Zip and/or Jaz drive(s) and disks under Linux. ...
  
• GTKlxsplit
  Gtklxsplit is a graphical user interface for "lxsplit" (program developed by Richard Stellingwerff) making a call of the binary (lxsplit). Developed with GPL license, GTKlxsplit is a fast tool for s...
  
• Lzop
  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 decompr...
  
• gzip
  Well known compress program (not only) for Linux. ...
  
• File Roller
  File Roller is an archive manager for the GNOME environment. Archive manager means that you can: Create and modify archives. View the content of an archive. View a file contained in the archive. ...
  
• Zip
  Zip is a compression and file packaging utility for Unix, VMS, DOS, OS/2, Windows 9x/NT, Amiga, Atari, Macintosh, BeOS, SMS/QDOS, MVS, VM/CMS, and others. It is analogous to a combination of the Unix...
  
• bzip2
  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 ...
  
• Flakarchiver
  Flakarchiver is a application for extracting and creating archives. It uses the wxWindows GUI library. Win32 and Linux are supported, but can be easily ported to other platforms. Currently there is r...
  
• untarka
  Untarka extracts TAR (Unix Tape ARchive) files without calling any external programs. It supports and autodetects multiple compression methods (.tar, .tar.Z, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .Z, .gz, and .bz2). Un...
  
• Gcompressor
  A GUI interface for GNOME that can decompress and compress files. ...
  
• UPX
  UPX is a free, portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for several different executable formats. It achieves an excellent compression ratio and offers very fast decompression. ...
  
• LinRAR
  A QT front end to the command line rar program from rarlabs. The main aim is to create a program similar to WinRAR. ...
  
• GBeep
  GBeep is a daemon that allows you to replace your system console beep (hardware beeper) with a custom sound file. The sound can be chosen in the GNOME Control Center. ...
  
• Xarchiver
  Xarchiver is a gtk+2 ONLY frontend to zip,rar,tar,bzip2, gzip and rpm (open and extract only). Xarchiver allows you to create,add, extract and delete files in the above formats. Zip and rar password ...
  
• minicrc
  Simple program which sole purpose is to calculate the crc32/adler32 checksum of multiple files. Design to be fast and light. ...
  
• tkArchive
  tkArchive is a modular, generalized interface to the standard unix file archiving utilities. ...
  
• UCL
  UCL is a portable lossless data compression library written in ANSI C. UCL implements a number of compression algorithms that achieve an excellent compression ratio while allowing *very* fast decompr...
  
• jzip
  jzip.org is WinZip like program written in Java. It is platform independent and easy to use, offering jar and zip archiving. It uses the Swing libraries for its GUI. ...
  
• Star
  Star is a very fast tar(1) like tape archiver with improved functionality. ...
  
• Konserve
  Konserve is a small backup application for the KDE 3.x environment. It lives in the system tray and is able to create regularly backups of several directories or files. ...
  
• Ex0r
  Ex0r can do three simple tasks. It can create tarballs that can extract themselves when executed, it can convert regular tarballs into self-extracting tarballs, and it can create tarballs that are bo...
  
• kdar
  KDar is the "KDE Disk archiver", a disk-based archiving and backup utility. ...