Open Source WinRAR Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to WinRAR 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 50 alternatives to WinRAR and 17 are open source and available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Linux alternatives to WinRAR are PeaZip, FreeArc, Ark and p7zip.

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  1. 7-Zip icon

    7-Zip

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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

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • ReactOS
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  2. PeaZip icon

    PeaZip

     675 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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
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  4. FreeArc icon

    FreeArc

     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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Ark icon

    Ark

     25 likes

    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).

    39 Ark alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
    • Windows
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  6. p7zip icon

    p7zip

     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.

    87 p7zip alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
     
  7. File Roller icon

    File Roller

     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

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
    • Linux Mobile
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  10. Xarchiver icon

    Xarchiver

     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

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
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  11. Rapidgzip icon

    Rapidgzip

     1 like

    Rapidgzip: Parallelized Decompression of Gzip Files with Support for Fast Random Access.

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  12. U

    unp

     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
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  13. gzip icon

    gzip

     16 likes

    GNU Gzip is a software application used for file compression and decompression. It is based on the DEFLATE algorithm, which is a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  14. F

    Free ARC NEXT

     3 likes

    A new rewritten Alternative for Free ARC by Bulat Ziganshin.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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