LibarchiveUsers

A few projects and people who use libarchive.

Who Uses Libarchive?

• 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
• 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 use 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.
  • 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)
• Ports of libarchive, bsdtar, etc.
  • GnuWin32 and Cygwin for Windows.
  • Darwinports for MacOS
  • Debian Linux
  • Gentoo
• Security Software
  • yextend uses libarchive
• Other Software
  • 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

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