libarchive: libarchive (Archive Access Library) libarchive: libarchive: Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read libarchive: several different streaming archive formats, including most libarchive: popular tar variants, several cpio formats, and both BSD and libarchive: GNU ar variants. It can also write shar archives and read libarchive: ISO9660 CDROM images and ZIP archives. libarchive: libarchive: libarchive: libarchive: