fuse-zip For Linux

fuse-zip is an open source and free command-line utility that provides a FUSE-based filesystem, which can be easily used to mount ZIP archives with read/write support under Linux kernel-based operating systems.

fuse-zip is based on the libzip library and implemented in C++. It allows users to create, extract, navigate and modify ZIP archives. In other words, it allows you to work with ZIP archives as you would work with real directories.

The project is engineered in such a way that it can be used in any application without modifications. It is also a lot faster that other similar programs, especially because it is written in the C++ programming language.

To install the fuse-zip software on your GNU/Linux system, you will have to download the latest version from Softpedia or the project’s website, save it on a location of your choice, extract it and open a terminal emulator.

In the terminal emulator, use the ‘cd’ command to navigate to the location of the extracted archive, run the “make” command (without quotes) to compile the program and the “make install” command, also without quotes, as root or with sudo to install it system wide.

The software comes with a few command-line options, which can be viewed at a glance by running the “fuse-zip --help” command in a terminal emulator (without quotes). Among these, we can mention the ability to open archives in read-only mode, turn on debugging, as well as to don’t detach from terminal.

As mentioned, the fuse-zip program is written entirely in the C++ programming language and requires the libzip library. It is distributed as a single archive in the zip file format, which contains the source code, compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit hardware platforms.