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{{Short description|Archiving tool for KDE desktop environment}}{{Single source|date=September 2024}}{{Infobox software
| name = KDE Applications
| title = Ark
| logo = Breezeicons-apps-48-ark.svg
| screenshot = Ark mainwindow.png
| caption = 
| developer = Rob Palmbos, Francois-Xavier Duranceau, Emily Ezust, Roberto Selbach Teixeira, Helio Castro, Georg Robbers, Henrique Pinto, Harald Hvaal, Raphael Kubo da Costa
| released = 1997 (as ''kzip'')<ref>https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=ark.git&a=commit&h=5ca1bc0a0cfa8b6abb3c5d4936e4deebb3f8638c {{Dead link|date=March 2022}}</ref>
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q671759|P348|P548=Q2804309}}
| latest release date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q671759|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}
| latest preview version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q671759|P348|P548=Q51930650}}
| latest preview date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q671759|P348|P548=Q51930650|P577}}
| programming language = [[C++]] ([[Qt (framework)|Qt]])
| genre = [[File archiver]]
| license = [[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-or-later]]
| website = {{URL|https://apps.kde.org/en/ark}}
}}
'''Ark''' is a [[file archiver]] and [[Data compression|compressor]] developed by [[KDE]] and included in the [[KDE Applications]] software bundle. It supports various common archive and compression formats including [[ZIP (file format)|zip]], [[7z]], [[RAR (file format)|rar]], [[LHA (file format)|lha]] and [[tar (file format)|tar]] (both uncompressed and compressed with e.g. [[gzip]], [[bzip2]], [[lzip]] or [[XZ Utils|xz]]).

== Features ==
*Ark uses [[libarchive]] and [[karchive]] to support tar-based archives, and is also a [[front end processor (program)|frontend]] for several command-line archivers.
*Ark can be integrated into [[Konqueror]], through [[KParts]] technology. After installing it, files can be added or extracted in/from the archives using Konqueror's context menus.
*Support for editing files in archive with external programs. Files can also be deleted from the archive.
*Archive creation with [[drag and drop]] from [[file manager]].

== See also ==
*[[Comparison of file archivers]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Ark (computing)}}
*{{Official website}}

{{KDE}}
{{Compression Software Implementations}}

[[Category:File archivers]]
[[Category:Free data compression software]]
[[Category:KDE Applications]]