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Data compression
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This article provides a list of file compression options available in Gentoo Linux.
Available software
Click on the name to visit its respective article or the package to visit its page on packages.gentoo.org:
| Name | Package | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 7za | app-arch/p7zip | A command-line port of 7-Zip for POSIX compliant systems such as Unix, OS X, BeOS and Amiga. The 7-Zip compression type uses one of the highest compression ratios currently available. |
| ace | app-arch/unace | |
| arj | app-arch/arj | |
| bzip2 | app-arch/bzip2 | A 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 | |
| gzip | app-arch/gzip | The Standard GNU compressor. One of the oldest of the group, has less compression than bzip2 format. |
| iso | app-cdr/cdrtools | |
| rar | app-arch/unrar | |
| 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. |
| 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. Must be built with the crypt USE flag in order to support encryption. Also supports the unicode USE flag.
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| zoo | app-arch/zoo | |
| zpaq | app-arch/zpaq |