Archive formats

The Unarchiver is a free data decompression utility, which supports more formats than Archive Utility (formerly known as BOMArchiveHelper), the built-in archive unpacker program in OS X.

7-Zip is an open-source file archiver, an application used primarily to compress files.

dar (disk archive) is a computer program, a command-line archiving tool intended as a replacement for tar in Unix-like operating systems.

RPM Package Manager (RPM) (originally Red Hat Package Manager; now a recursive acronym) is a package management system.

xz is a lossless data compression program and file format which incorporates the LZMA/LZMA2 compression algorithms.

FreeArc is a free and open source file archiver developed by Bulat Ziganshin.

lzip is a free, command-line tool for the compression of data; it employs the Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm (LZMA) with a user interface that is familiar to users of usual Unix compression tools, such as gzip and bzip2.

bzip2 is a free and open-source file compression program that uses the Burrows–Wheeler algorithm.

In computing, tar is a computer software utility for collecting many files into one archive file, often referred to as a tarball, for distribution or backup purposes.

gzip is a file format and a software application used for file compression and decompression.

JAR is a tool for creating compressed file archives that use .

Ark is a file archiver and compressor developed by KDE and included in the KDE Applications software bundle.

lzop is a free software file compression tool which implements the LZO algorithm and is licensed under the GPL.

A Disk image, in computing, is a computer file containing the contents and structure of a disk volume or of an entire data storage device, such as a hard disk drive, tape drive, floppy disk, optical disc or USB flash drive.

Listaller is a free computer software installation system (similar to a package management system) aimed at making it simple to create a package that can be installed on all Linux distributions as well as providing tools and API to make software management on Linux more user-friendly.

Portable Network Graphics (PNG /ˈpɪŋ/) is a raster graphics file format that supports lossless data compression.

Snappy (previously known as Zippy) is a fast data compression and decompression library written in C++ by Google based on ideas from LZ77 and open-sourced in 2011.

The SQX-Archiver is an open and free data compression and archival format.

IPSW is a file format used in iTunes to install iOS firmware.

ZPAQ is an open source (GPL) command line archiver for Windows and Linux.

StuffIt is a family of computer software utilities for archiving and compressing files.

Autopackage was a free computer package management system aimed at making it simple to create a package that can be installed on all Linux distributions, created by Mike Hearn around 2002.