Open Source Ark Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Ark for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best open source Linux alternative is 7-Zip. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Ark and ten of them are open source and available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Linux alternatives to Ark are PeaZip, FreeArc, File Roller and Engrampa.

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  1. 7-Zip icon
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    Feature-rich archiving software with top-tier compression in 7z, integration in Windows Shell, AES-256 encryption, and multi-format support, including TAR, ZIP, RAR. Offers strong file management tools and a command line version for Linux/Unix systems.

    114 7-Zip alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • ReactOS
     
  2. PeaZip icon
     669 likes

    PeaZip is free file archiver utility, based on Open Source technologies of 7-Zip, p7zip, FreeArc, PAQ, and PEA projects, for Linux, macOS and Windows.

    98 PeaZip alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
     
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    PeaZip vs Ark Comments
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    Nice and easy GUI, versatile. No Problems!

    • PeaZip is Free and Open SourceArk is also Free and Open Source
    • PeaZip is CustomizableArk is not according to our users
  3. FreeArc icon
     52 likes

    FreeArc is a free and open source file archiver developed by Bulat Ziganshin. It uses LZMA, PPMD, TrueAudio and GRzip algorithms with automatic switching by file type, and also uses set of filters—for instance it can remove repetitions from text.

    81 FreeArc alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. File Roller icon
     83 likes

    File Roller is the archive manager of the GNOME desktop environment. It can extract, view, create and modify archives. File Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip.

    88 File Roller alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
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    File Roller vs Ark Comments
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    It works: Nice and easy and available virtually on every DE.

    • File Roller is Free and Open SourceArk is also Free and Open Source
  5.  5 likes

    is a small perl script which makes extraction of any archive files a bit easier. It support several compressors and archiver programs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Terminal
    • Xfce
     
  6. Xarchiver icon
     28 likes

    Xarchiver is a lightweight desktop independent archive manager built with the GTK+2 toolkit. It was developed with a simple GUI which that could be used with any desktop environment and would operate using the command line rather than API calls.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
     
  7. p7zip icon
     29 likes

    p7zip is a port of the command line version of the 7-Zip file archiver to POSIX-conforming operating systems like Unix (Linux, Solaris, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Cygwin, AIX, ...), MacOS X and also for BeOS and Amiga.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
     
  8. A new rewritten Alternative for Free ARC by Bulat Ziganshin.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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