Ark is a graphical program for managing various archive formats and it is developed by KDE Applications. ark is written in C++ and it can handle different file format such as tar, gzip, bzip2, zip, rar and lha.

Go to website https://utils.kde.org/projects/ark/ to know more details of ark archiving tool.

Do the below steps to install ark on your CentOS 7 server.

1. Log into your Linux server as ‘root’ user

2. Run the command ‘yum install ark’ to install ark file compression/decompression software

# yum install ark

The above command will install ark package and the required dependencies.

3. After installation run ‘ark --help’ to see the usage and all the options

# ark --version
Qt: 4.8.7
KDE Development Platform: 4.14.8
Ark: 2.19

# ark --help