Ark
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Ark is a program for viewing, extracting, creating and modifying archives. Ark can handle various archive formats such as tar, gzip, bzip2, zip, rar, 7zip, xz, rpm, cab and deb (support for certain archive formats depend on the appropriate command-line programs being installed).
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application typeApplication types
EUPlatforms
- Linux
- KDE Plasma
- Flathub
- Snapcraft
- Windows
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Paul added Ark as alternative to ZIP Protect
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linux/bazzite= flathub+waydroid+distrobox+(ostree+bootc)
useful when you don't want to buy RAM>8GB and Windows can't upgrade.
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Comments and Reviews
Has a useful GUI.
It's nice that it is standard with KDE...
...however: It hardly ever works - I think on half my KDE installs it either did not work at all or only permitted the standard compress from within dolphin.
At first I kept blaming KDE and Dolphin but it turns out that Ark itself is to be blamed as it accepts file but not directories.
So, what's use of such packer? None :(
This is really the best 7Zip Alternative for Linux with a easy to use GUI.
I love 7Zip for Windows NT, XP and 7. But in Linux there is Ark, also there are a lot of other things, just they cant reach the level of Ark.
Hello, Did you try PeaZip ? What do you think of it ? ~
I've no experience with PeaZip. But i just installed it on my Min 17.3, here is my first opinion:
But you have to recognize I don't use it main.
Ho, I never used a drag and drop Zip software, might look at it sometime. I use PeaZip everyday, love it. Thank you for your review. ^^