diff --git a/cli/commands/build/linux.dart b/cli/commands/build/linux.dart
index 7f0e49957..a218720ce 100644
--- a/cli/commands/build/linux.dart
+++ b/cli/commands/build/linux.dart
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import 'package:io/io.dart';
 import 'package:args/command_runner.dart';
 import 'package:intl/intl.dart';
 import 'package:path/path.dart';
-import 'package:archive/archive.dart';
 
 import '../../core/env.dart';
 import 'common.dart';
@@ -70,23 +69,9 @@ class LinuxBuildCommand extends Command with BuildCommandCommonSteps {
       join(tempDir, "spotube-logo.png"),
     );
 
-    final archive = Archive();
-
-    for (final entity in Directory(tempDir).listSync(recursive: true)) {
-      if (entity is File) {
-        final fileRelPath = relative(entity.path, from: tempDir);
-        final file = File(entity.path);
-        final fileData = file.readAsBytesSync();
-        archive.addFile(ArchiveFile(fileRelPath, fileData.length, fileData));
-      }
-    }
-
-    // convert to tar.xz
-    final tarEncoder = TarEncoder();
-    final xzEncoder = XZEncoder();
-    final tarXzData = xzEncoder.encode(tarEncoder.encode(archive));
-
-    await tarFile.writeAsBytes(tarXzData);
+    await shell.run(
+      "tar -cJf ${tarFile.path} -C $tempDir .",
+    );
 
     final ogDeb = File(
       join(
diff --git a/pubspec.lock b/pubspec.lock
index 20166a3d0..df623b9e1 100644
--- a/pubspec.lock
+++ b/pubspec.lock
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ packages:
     source: hosted
     version: "4.0.1"
   archive:
-    dependency: "direct dev"
+    dependency: transitive
     description:
       name: archive
       sha256: ecf4273855368121b1caed0d10d4513c7241dfc813f7d3c8933b36622ae9b265
diff --git a/pubspec.yaml b/pubspec.yaml
index fae2d946a..7435e077c 100644
--- a/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/pubspec.yaml
@@ -147,7 +147,6 @@ dev_dependencies:
   process_run: ^0.14.2
   xml: ^6.5.0
   io: ^1.0.4
-  archive: ^3.5.1
 
 dependency_overrides:
   uuid: ^4.4.0