SharpCompress

SharpCompress is a compression library for NET Standard 2.0/NET 4.8/NET 4.8.1/NET 6.0/NET 8.0 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 is implemented.

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Version:	0.41.0
Author(s):	Adam Hathcock
Last Update:	Monday, October 13, 2025
.NET Fiddle:	Create the first Fiddle
Project Url:	https://github.com/adamhathcock/sharpcompress
NuGet Url:	https://www.nuget.org/packages/sharpcompress

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Install-Package sharpcompress

dotnet add package sharpcompress

paket add sharpcompress


                                sharpcompress Download (Unzip the "nupkg" after downloading)

Dependencies

.NETStandard 2.0

System.Memory(>= 4.5.4)
System.Text.Encoding.CodePages(>= 5.0.0)

net5.0

No dependencies.

netcoreapp3.1

No dependencies.

netstandard2.1

System.Text.Encoding.CodePages(>= 5.0.0)

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