libarchive

Install command:
brew install libarchive

Multi-format archive and compression library

https://www.libarchive.org

License: BSD-2-Clause

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/libarchive.json

Formula code: libarchive.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 3.8.10

Keg-only because macOS already provides this software.

Depends on:

libb2 0.98.1 Secure hashing function
lz4 1.10.0 Extremely Fast Compression algorithm
xz 5.8.4 General-purpose data compression with high compression ratio
zstd 1.5.7 Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm

Uses from macOS: bzip2, expat

Binaries: bsdcat, bsdcpio, bsdtar, bsdunzip

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