# Install fuse-zip with Homebrew, apt, dnf, pacman, zypper FUSE file system to create & manipulate ZIP archives. Version 0.7.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-21. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install fuse-zip. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:fuse-zip ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install fuse-zip ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install fuse-zip ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: fuse-zip from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - dnf (92%): ```sh sudo dnf install fuse-zip ``` Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: fuse-zip from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S fuse-zip ``` Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: fuse-zip from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install fuse-zip ``` Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: fuse-zip from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:fuse-zip - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 0.7.2 - **Source summary:** FUSE file system to create & manipulate ZIP archives - **Homepage:** - **Last updated:** 2026-06-21T18:29:14-04:00 - **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - fuse-zip (alias) ## Install behavior - Bottle: not available ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-08-03 - Package-manager version: 0.7.2 ## Project history and usage fuse-zip is a FUSE filesystem for mounting ZIP and ZIP64 archives as writable directory trees. Its official README emphasizes that users can navigate, extract, create, and modify ZIP archives from ordinary applications without application-specific virtual-filesystem support. ### 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 - - ## Security Notes broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger risk:** blue / medium - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## Other Package-Manager Records - Debian apt - fuse-zip - 0.7.2-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: fuse-zip from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | ZIP archive mounter based on FUSE | https://bitbucket.org/agalanin/fuse-zip - Ubuntu apt - fuse-zip - 0.6.0-0ubuntu5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: fuse-zip from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | ZIP archive mounter based on FUSE | https://bitbucket.org/agalanin/fuse-zip - dnf - fuse-zip - 0.7.2-14.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: fuse-zip from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Filesystem to navigate, extract, create and modify ZIP archives | https://bitbucket.org/agalanin/fuse-zip/ - pacman - fuse-zip - 0.7.2-4: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: fuse-zip from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Mount and modify zip files | https://bitbucket.org/agalanin/fuse-zip - zypper - fuse-zip - 0.7.2+git.1733961742.3715770-1.5: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: fuse-zip from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | File System to Navigate, Extract, Create and Modify ZIP Archives | https://bitbucket.org/agalanin/fuse-zip ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/fuse-zip.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/fuse-zip.yml) ## Sources - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph