Ark (software)

Archiving tool for KDE desktop environment

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Ark

Developer(s)| Rob Palmbos, Francois-Xavier Duranceau, Emily Ezust, Roberto Selbach Teixeira, Helio Castro, Georg Robbers, Henrique Pinto, Harald Hvaal, Raphael Kubo da Costa
Initial release| 1997 (as kzip)[1]
Stable release|

R14.1.2[2] / 18 April 2024

Repository|

* invent.kde.org/utilities/ark

Written in| C++ (Qt)
Type| File archiver
License| GPL-2.0-or-later
Website| apps.kde.org/en/ark

Ark is a file archiver and compressor developed by KDE and included in the KDE Applications software bundle. It supports various common archive and compression formats including zip, 7z, rar, lha and tar (both uncompressed and compressed with e.g. gzip, bzip2, lzip or xz).

## Features

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* Ark uses libarchive and karchive to support tar-based archives, and is also a frontend for several command-line archivers.
* Ark can be integrated into Konqueror, through KParts technology. After installing it, files can be added or extracted in/from the archives using Konqueror's context menus.
* Support for editing files in archive with external programs. Files can also be deleted from the archive.
* Archive creation with drag and drop from file manager.

## See also

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* Comparison of file archivers

## References

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1. ^ https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=ark.git&a=commit&h=5ca1bc0a0cfa8b6abb3c5d4936e4deebb3f8638c [dead link]
2. ^ "Official Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.2 release". Retrieved 27 June 2024.

## External links

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KDE

Software
compilation|

* KDE 1
* KDE 2
* KDE 3
* KDE SC 4
* Post-fourth series
* KDE Plasma 5
* KDE Plasma 6
* KDE Frameworks
* KDE Gear

Applications
by KDE|

| Development|

* Cervisia
* KDevelop
* KImageMapEditor
* Umbrello

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Education|

* Cantor
* GCompris
* KAlgebra
* Kanagram
* KBibTeX
* KGeography
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* KLettres
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* KStars
* KTouch
* KTurtle
* KWordQuiz
* LabPlot
* Marble
* RKWard
* Step

Graphics|

* digiKam
* Gwenview
* Karbon
* KColorEdit
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Internet|

* Angelfish
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Multimedia|

* Amarok
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Office|

* Okular
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* Stage
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System|

* Discover
* Dolphin
* KDE Partition Manager
* KDE System Guard
* KInfoCenter
* Konsole
* Yakuake

Utilities|

* Ark
* Filelight
* KAlarm
* Kate
* KCalc
* KGPG
* Klipper
* Krusader
* KRename
* KWallet
* KWrite
* KDE Connect

Discontinued|

* KOffice
* KWord
* Kugar

Platform|

| User interface|

| Current|

* KDE Plasma 6
* KDE Plasma 5
* KWin
* Plasma Mobile
* Plasma Bigscreen

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Discontinued|

* KDesktop
* Kicker
* SuperKaramba
* KDE Plasma 4
* KSnapshot
* Oxygen Project
* Crystal Project

Current|

* KWin
* SDDM (5–)
* Qt
* KDE Frameworks 5 (5–)
* Akonadi
* Flake
* KJS
* KHTML
* KIO
* ThreadWeaver
* KIPI
* KParts
* Kross
* Phonon
* Solid
* Sonnet
* XMLGUI

Discontinued|

* KDElibs (–3)
* DCOP (3)
* KDE Platform 4 (4)
* KDM (–4)
* NEPOMUK (4.13)
* Strigi

freedesktop.org
(shared)|

* AppStream
* D-Bus
* GStreamer
* NetworkManager
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* X.Org Server
* PulseAudio

Community|

* KDE e.V.
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People|

* Matthias Kalle Dalheimer
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Data compression software

Archivers with
compression
(comparison)|

| Free and
open-source|

* 7-Zip
* Ark
* Expander
* FreeArc
* GNOME Archive Manager
* Info-ZIP
* KGB Archiver
* PAQ
* pax
* PeaZip
* XAD (decompression only)
* Xarchiver
* Zipeg
* ZPAQ

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Freeware|

* Filzip
* LHA
* Lhasa (decompression only)
* StuffIt Expander (decompression only)
* The Unarchiver (decompression only)
* TUGZip
* ZipGenius

Commercial|

* ARC
* ALZip
* Archive Utility
* ARJ
* BetterZip
* MacBinary
* PKZIP/SecureZIP
* PowerArchiver
* StuffIt
* WinAce
* WinRAR
* WinZip

Non-archiving
compressors|

| Generic|

* bzip2
* compress
* gzip
* lzip
* lzop
* pack
* rzip
* Snappy
* XZ Utils
* zstd

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For code|

UPX

Audio
compression
(comparison)|

| Lossy|

* AAC
* Fraunhofer FDK AAC
* Nero AAC Codec
* FAAC
* Helix DNA Producer
* MP3
* l3enc
* LAME
* TooLAME
* libavcodec
* libcelt
* libopus
* libspeex
* Musepack
* libvorbis
* Windows Media Encoder

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Lossless|

* ALAC
* FLAC
* libavcodec
* Monkey's Audio
* mp4als
* OptimFROG
* Shorten
* WavPack

Video
compression
(comparison)|

| Lossy|

| MPEG-4 ASP|

* 3ivx
* DivX
* Nero Digital
* FFmpeg
* HDX4
* Xvid

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H.264|

* CoreAVC
* Blu-code
* DivX
* FFmpeg
* Nero Digital
* OpenH264
* QuickTime
* x264

HEVC|

* DivX
* x265

Others|

* CineForm
* Cinepak
* Daala
* DNxHD
* Helix DNA Producer
* Indeo
* libavcodec
* Schrödinger (Dirac)
* SBC
* Sorenson
* VP7
* libtheora
* libvpx
* Windows Media Encoder

Lossless|

* FFV1
* Huffyuv
* Lagarith
* MSU Lossless
* YULS

* See also: compression methods and compression formats

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