diff --git a/src/helpers.rs b/src/helpers.rs
index 8ee87f9a..9ec2bcb7 100644
--- a/src/helpers.rs
+++ b/src/helpers.rs
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ pub use async_file_writer::AsyncFileWriter;
 mod auto_abort_join_handle;
 pub use auto_abort_join_handle::AutoAbortJoinHandle;
 
+mod extracter;
+
 /// Load binstall metadata from the crate `Cargo.toml` at the provided path
 pub fn load_manifest_path<P: AsRef<Path>>(
     manifest_path: P,
diff --git a/src/helpers/extracter.rs b/src/helpers/extracter.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..77ad3665
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/helpers/extracter.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+use std::fs::File;
+use std::io::Read;
+use std::path::Path;
+
+use flate2::read::GzDecoder;
+use log::debug;
+use tar::Archive;
+use xz2::read::XzDecoder;
+use zip::read::ZipArchive;
+use zstd::stream::Decoder as ZstdDecoder;
+
+use crate::{BinstallError, PkgFmt};
+
+/// Extract files from the specified source onto the specified path.
+///
+///  * `fmt` - must not be `PkgFmt::Bin` or `PkgFmt::Zip`.
+pub fn extract_compressed_from_readable(
+    dat: impl Read,
+    fmt: PkgFmt,
+    path: &Path,
+) -> Result<(), BinstallError> {
+    match fmt {
+        PkgFmt::Tar => {
+            // Extract to install dir
+            debug!("Extracting from tar archive to `{path:?}`");
+
+            let mut tar = Archive::new(dat);
+
+            tar.unpack(path)?;
+        }
+        PkgFmt::Tgz => {
+            // Extract to install dir
+            debug!("Decompressing from tgz archive to `{path:?}`");
+
+            let tar = GzDecoder::new(dat);
+            let mut tgz = Archive::new(tar);
+
+            tgz.unpack(path)?;
+        }
+        PkgFmt::Txz => {
+            // Extract to install dir
+            debug!("Decompressing from txz archive to `{path:?}`");
+
+            let tar = XzDecoder::new(dat);
+            let mut txz = Archive::new(tar);
+
+            txz.unpack(path)?;
+        }
+        PkgFmt::Tzstd => {
+            // Extract to install dir
+            debug!("Decompressing from tzstd archive to `{path:?}`");
+
+            // The error can only come from raw::Decoder::with_dictionary
+            // as of zstd 0.10.2 and 0.11.2, which is specified
+            // as &[] by ZstdDecoder::new, thus ZstdDecoder::new
+            // should not return any error.
+            let tar = ZstdDecoder::new(dat)?;
+            let mut txz = Archive::new(tar);
+
+            txz.unpack(path)?;
+        }
+        PkgFmt::Zip => panic!("Unexpected PkgFmt::Zip!"),
+        PkgFmt::Bin => panic!("Unexpected PkgFmt::Bin!"),
+    };
+
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+pub fn unzip(dat: File, dst: &Path) -> Result<(), BinstallError> {
+    debug!("Decompressing from zip archive to `{dst:?}`");
+
+    let mut zip = ZipArchive::new(dat)?;
+    zip.extract(dst)?;
+
+    Ok(())
+}