Data compression
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This article provides a list of some of the file compression options available in Gentoo Linux.
Note
See archive managers on the recommended applications page for some examples of GUI archiving uilities.
See archive managers on the recommended applications page for some examples of GUI archiving uilities.
Available software
This is a partial selection of data compression tools available in Gentoo. See app-arch package category on packages.g.o, or use a package query tool such as eix (app-portage/eix).
| Name | Package | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ace | app-arch/unace | ACE unarchiver. |
| arj | app-arch/arj | Software tool for creating compressed file archives. |
| bzip2 | app-arch/bzip2 | High-quality data compressor that used to be the primary compression format used in distributing source code. It is slowly losing ground to the newer, tightly packable xz format. |
| cpio | app-arch/cpio | File archival tool which can also read and write tar files. |
| gzip | app-arch/gzip | The Standard GNU compressor. One of the oldest of the group, has less compression than bzip2 format. |
| lzop | app-arch/lzop | Fast (even real-time) compression/decompression. |
| p7zip, 7za | app-arch/p7zip | Command-line port of 7-Zip for POSIX compliant systems. The 7-Zip compression type uses one of the highest compression ratios currently available. |
| rar | app-arch/unrar | Uncompress rar files. |
| rzip | app-arch/rzip | Compression program for large files. |
| Snappy | app-arch/snappy | High-speed compression/decompression library by Google. |
| tar | app-arch/tar | GNU's tarball generator software (used extensively by Gentoo Linux). tar has the ability to create .gz, .bz2, and .xz compression by passing different options. This is one tool all Linux users should have in their tool belt. |
| unar | app-arch/unar | The Unarchiver is an open-source utility that can extract RAR files. |
| UnZip | app-arch/unzip | Provides decompression for classic ZIP formats. |
| xz | app-arch/xz-utils | Includes utilities for managing LZMA compressed files. |
| Zip | app-arch/zip | Provides classic ZIP compression (this flavor created by Info-ZIP). Nice for cross-platform compatibility with Microsoft operating systems. |
| zoo | app-arch/zoo | Data compression program and format developed the 1980s and based on LZW. |
| zpaq | app-arch/zpaq | Journaling incremental deduplicating archiving compressor. |
| zstd | app-arch/zstd | zstd fast compression library. |