diff --git a/README.packagers b/README.packagers
--- a/README.packagers
+++ b/README.packagers
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 * rar: to create and edit rar archives
 * lsar, unar: to open and extract rar archives [RECOMMENDED, free]
 * lrzip: to open and extract lrzip archives
+* lzop: to open and extract tar.lzo archives if libarchive >= 3.3 has been compiled without liblzo2 support.
 
 OPTIONAL BUILD-TIME DEPENDENCIES
 
diff --git a/plugins/libarchive/CMakeLists.txt b/plugins/libarchive/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/plugins/libarchive/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/plugins/libarchive/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -75,3 +75,10 @@
 else()
     message(WARNING "Could not find the lrzip executable. Ark requires lrzip to handle the tar.lrz archive format.")
 endif()
+
+find_program(LZOP lzop)
+if(LZOP)
+    message(STATUS "Found lzop executable: ${LZOP}")
+else()
+    message(WARNING "Could not find the lzop executable. Ark requires lzop to handle the tar.lzo archive format if libarchive >= 3.3 has been compiled without liblzo2 support.")
+endif()