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sharpcompress

SharpCompress is a compression library for NET 4.8/NET Standard 2.0/NET Standard 2.1/NET 5.0/NET 6.0/NET 7.0/NET 8.0/NET 9.0/NET 10.0 that can unrar, decompress 7zip, decompress xz, zip/unzip, tar/untar lzip/unlzip, bzip2/unbzip2 and gzip/ungzip with forward-only reading and file random access APIs. Write support for zip/tar/bzip2/gzip/7zip is implemented.

Total Downloads
357.5M
357,479,520
Published
May 20, 2026
Latest stable version

Install

.NET CLI
dotnet add package sharpcompress --version 0.49.0-beta.140
Package Manager Console
Install-Package sharpcompress -Version 0.49.0-beta.140
PackageReference
<PackageReference Include="sharpcompress" Version="0.49.0-beta.140" />

Frameworks

net10.0 .NETFramework4.8 net6.0 net8.0 .NETStandard2.0 .NETStandard2.1

Dependencies

[8.0.0, )
[8.0.0, )
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[8.0.0, )

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