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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).

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Platforms

  • Linux
  • KDE
3 / 5 Avg rating (2)
21 likes
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Features

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Ad-free
  2.  File Archiving
  3.  QT Based
  4.  File Compression
  5.  AES Encryption

Ark News & Activities

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    muhammadfarag added Ark as alternative to 360 ZIP
    24 days ago
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    shazmataz added Ark as alternative to Keka
    about 1 month ago
  • yetanotherqubick, d2038_2020 and drliu1202 liked Ark
    4 months ago
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    jdakfkj333 added Ark as alternative to ZipXtract
    6 months ago
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    POX added Ark as alternative to Arclite Pro
    7 months ago
  • K0RR liked Ark
    10 months ago
  • 5af1 added Ad-free as a feature to Ark
    12 months ago
  • 5af1 reviewed Ark  
    12 months ago

    Has a useful GUI.

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Ark information

  • Developed by

    KDE
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3
  • Alternatives

    38 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Ark, and it has gotten 21 likes

Ark was added to AlternativeTo by RemovedUser on Nov 17, 2015 and this page was last updated May 14, 2022.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Safirur Rashid
  
Top positive commentDec 6, 2023

Has a useful GUI.

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Third Opinion
  
Top negative commentJan 31, 2021

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 :(

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Translator5
CommentJan 23, 2016

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.

3 replies
Yrdael

Hello, Did you try PeaZip ? What do you think of it ? ~

Reply written Feb 17, 2016

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Translator5

I've no experience with PeaZip. But i just installed it on my Min 17.3, here is my first opinion:

  • Very nice look, top designed!
  • Top for so much translations!
  • The pre-configured directories aren't located to linux mint. (you can handle it yourself, so nothing dramatical)
  • Drag and Drop do not work :'/ or I just didn't get it to work. All-In-One: It's good for user which had , if you are a noob without Drag and Drop files, it isn't for you.

But you have to recognize I don't use it main.

Reply written Feb 17, 2016

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Yrdael

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. ^^

Reply written Feb 18, 2016

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What is Ark?

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).