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A few projects and people who use libarchive.

Operating Systems

FreeBSD

  • libarchive was originally developed for FreeBSD; it was first released with FreeBSD 5.3 in November 2004.
  • bsdtar is the default system tar starting with FreeBSD 6
  • bsdcpio is the default system cpio starting with FreeBSD 8
  • Kai Wang's "ar" is standard with FreeBSD 8
  • Dag-Erling Smørgrav's "unzip" is standard with FreeBSD 8

NetBSD

  • since release 5.0 libarchive is part of NetBSD
  • bsdtar is the default system tar since NetBSD 9.0
  • bsdcpio is the default system cpio since NetBSD 9.0

Apple macOS

  • since 2009 libarchive is part of macOS
  • bsdtar is the default system tar
  • bsdcpio is the default system cpio

Microsoft Windows

  • since 2017 (Windows 10 insider build 17063) libarchive is shipped with the command line tools
  • bsdtar is the default system tar

Individual Software

Package Managers

Archiving tools and File Browsers

  • The tarsnap service uses libarchive in its client software.
  • Springy for Mac OS X uses libarchive to process TAR, PAX and CPIO archives.
  • Files (formerly Nautilus) file browser file-roller plugin uses libarchive
  • The archivemount filesystem (part of FUSE) uses libarchive
  • KDE's ark file browser uses libarchive for tar, deb, and ISO files.
  • CARE — short for "Comprehensive Archiver for Reproducible Execution" — uses libarchive.
  • ZIP Unpacker Component Extension uses libarchive in Chrome OS
  • GVfs GNOME Virtual file system uses libarchive as one of its backends to access archive files
  • Samba version 4.2 and higher uses libarchive in smbclient(1)

Security Software

Other Software

  • ardour digital audio workstation uses libarchive
  • Avogadro 2 chemical editor and visualization application uses libarchive
  • Hydrogen advanced drum machine uses libarchive
  • libgepub GObject based library for handling and rendering epub documents uses libarchive
  • libgxps GObject based library for handling and rendering XPS documents uses libarchive
  • Nestopia UE Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom emulator uses libarchive
  • Osmo personal organizer for GTK+ version 0.2.12 and higher uses libarchive
  • rdup utility to create a file list suitable for making backups uses libarchive
  • Seafile open source cloud storage system uses libarchive
  • Zeal offline documentation browser uses libarchive

Ports of libarchive, bsdtar, etc.

If you know of other projects that should be in this list, please let us know.

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