LibarchiveUsers

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

• Pacman package manager on Arch Linux uses libarchive
• XBPS package manager on Void Linux uses libarchive
• NetBSD's pkg_install package manager uses libarchive.
• CMake uses libarchive
• pkgutils from the CRUX distribution uses libarchive
• The Paludis multi-format package manager for Gentoo and Exherbo uses libarchive

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

• yextend uses libarchive

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.

• GnuWin32, Cygwin and MSYS for Windows.
• MacPorts (formerly Darwinports) and Homebrew for MacOS
• Debian Linux
• Gentoo

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