Free zip software for linux

File Roller project is an archive manager for the GNOME environment.
Archive manager means that you can:
- Create and modify archives.
- View the content of an archive.
- View a file contained in the archive.
- Extract files from the archive.
File Roller is only a front-end (a graphical interface) to archiving programs like tar and zip.
The supported file types are :
- Tar archives uncompressed (.tar) or compressed with
- gzip (.tar.gz , .tgz)
- bzip (.tar.bz , .tbz)
- bzip2 (.tar.bz2 , .tbz2)
- compress (.tar.Z , .taz)
- lzop (.tar.lzo , .tzo)
- Zip archives (.zip)
- Jar archives (.jar , .ear , .war)
- Lha archives (.lzh)
- Rar archives (.rar)
- Single files compressed with gzip, bzip, bzip2, compress, lzop
File Roller has a document viewer based on bonobo that lets you view files of any type you have a viewer for.
Whats New in 2.18.4 Stable Release:
- Updated Hungarian translation.

niche.sh is an experimental shell written in java and c.
It aims to:
- be platform neutral
- operate multiple machines
- provide a simple efficient command line
niche.sh was written purely out of interest, please try it if you like but dont expect a finished product!
The c component of the shell has been compiled for Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OSX and FreeBSD. Results may vary depending on the exact version of your os all the files for all platforms are contained in a single zip file.

Archive::Zip is a Perl module which provides an interface to ZIP archive files.

SYNOPSIS

# Create a Zip file
use Archive::Zip qw( :ERROR_CODES :CONSTANTS );
my $zip = Archive::Zip->new();

# Add a directory
my $dir_member = $zip->addDirectory( dirname/ );

# Add a file from a string with compression
my $string_member = $zip->addString( This is a test, stringMember.txt );
$string_member->desiredCompressionMethod( COMPRESSION_DEFLATED );

# Add a file from disk
my $file_member = $zip->addFile( xyz.pl, AnotherName.pl );

# Save the Zip file
unless ( $zip->writeToFileNamed(someZip.zip) == AZ_OK ) {
die write error;
}

# Read a Zip file
my $somezip = Archive::Zip->new();
unless ( $somezip->read( someZip.zip ) == AZ_OK ) {
die read error;
}

# Change the compression type for a file in the Zip
my $member = $somezip->memberNamed( stringMember.txt );
$member->desiredCompressionMethod( COMPRESSION_STORED );
unless ( $zip->writeToFileNamed( someOtherZip.zip ) == AZ_OK ) {
die write error;
}

The Archive::Zip module allows a Perl program to create, manipulate, read, and write Zip archive files.

Zip archives can be created, or you can read from existing zip files.
Once created, they can be written to files, streams, or strings. Members can be added, removed, extracted, replaced, rearranged, and enumerated. They can also be renamed or have their dates, comments, or other attributes queried or modified. Their data can be compressed or uncompressed as needed.
Members can be created from members in existing Zip files, or from existing directories, files, or strings.

This module uses the Compress::Zlib library to read and write the compressed streams inside the files.

Archive::SelfExtract is a Perl module to bundle compressed archives with Perl code.

SYNOPSIS

use Archive::SelfExtract;

# writes output script to STDOUT
Archive::SelfExtract::createExtractor( "perlcode.pl", "somefiles.zip" );

# with various options:
Archive::SelfExtract::createExtractor( "perlcode.pl", "somefiles.zip",
perlbin => "/opt/perl58/bin/perl",
output_fh => $someFileHandle,
);
See also the command line tool, mkselfextract.

Archive::SelfExtract allows you create Perl programs out of compressed zip archives. Given a piece of code and an archive, it creates a single file which, when run, unpacks the archive and then runs the code.

This module provides a function for creating a self-extractor script, a function to unpack the archive, and utility functions for wrapped programs

libzip library can read, create, and modify zip archives. Files can be added from data buffers, files, or compressed data copied directly from other zip archives.
Changes made without closing the archive can be reverted.
Enhancements:
- New functions were added for adding directories to an archive and to clear the internal error state.
- Zip archives larger than 2 GB and streamed zip archives are now supported.

Comix is a comic book viewer. It reads zip, rar, tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives (often called .cbz, .cbr and .cbt) as well as normal image files. It is written in Python and has a simple user interface using pyGTK.
Comix is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Main features:
- Fullscreen mode.
- Double page mode.
- Fit-to-screen mode.
- Zooming and scrolling.
- Rotation and mirroring.
- Changeable background colour.
- Changeable image scaling quality.
- Adjustable saturation and contrast.
- Can read right-to-left to fit manga etc.
- Caching for faster page flipping.
- Mouse wheel support.
- Bookmarks support.
- Hideable cursor.
- Customizable GUI.
- Archive comments support.
- Archive converter.
- Thumbnail browser.
- Translated to English, Swedish, Simplified Chinese and Spanish.
- Reads the JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, ICO, XPM and XBM image formats.
- Reads ZIP and tar archives natively, and RAR archives through the unrar program.
- Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and virtually any other UNIX-like OS.
- More!