Install fuse-zip with Homebrew, apt, dnf, pacman, zypper

Project links

• Homepage
• Package manager page

Commands and aliases

• fuse-zip

Project history

Alexander Galanin maintains the project in a public Bitbucket Git repository. The README describes fuse-zip as a C++ filesystem based on libzip and lists support for read-only and read-write modes, transparent packing and unpacking, ZIP64, Unix permissions, timestamps, comments, sparse files, and several ZIP extra fields.

The README records feature milestones across the 0.x series: version 0.3.0 added support for absolute and parent-relative paths in read-only mode; version 0.4 added Unix file permissions and owner information; and version 0.7.0 added comments, high-precision timestamps, and read/write support for special Unix file types.

Adoption history

The official README lists distribution through Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Gentoo, Fink, Homebrew, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. It also states that fuse-zip was used by the Chrome OS zip archive mounter and by vifm, indicating adoption both as an end-user tool and as a component in larger file-management workflows.

How it is used

The normal usage pattern is to create a mount point, run `fuse-zip archive.zip mountpoint`, work with the mounted directory, and unmount it with `fusermount -u`. If the ZIP file does not exist, the tool creates it after unmounting.

The README warns that added and changed files live in memory until unmount and that modified archives are repacked at unmount time, so large archives need enough memory and temporary disk space.

Why package nerds care

fuse-zip is package-nerd-interesting because it turns an archive format into a writable POSIX-like filesystem while preserving many Unix metadata details that archive tools commonly flatten. It occupies the practical space between `zip`/`unzip` commands and desktop virtual-filesystem stacks such as KIO or GNOME VFS.

Timeline

• 0.3.0: Support added for absolute and parent-relative paths in file names in read-only mode.
• 0.4: Unix file permissions and owner information added.
• 0.7.0: File and archive comments, high-precision timestamps, and special Unix file types added.

Related projects

• The README compares fuse-zip with KIO, GNOME VFS, mc vfs, unpackfs, avfs, and fuse-j-zip.
• The project depends conceptually on FUSE and libzip and is related to tools and systems that mount archives as filesystems.

Sources

• https://bitbucket.org/agalanin/fuse-zip
• https://bitbucket.org/agalanin/fuse-zip/raw/master/README.md