How To Install diffoscope on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install diffoscope on Debian 9.
What is diffoscope
diffoscope is:
diffoscope will try to get to the bottom of what makes files or directories different. It will recursively unpack archives of many kinds and transform various binary formats into more human readable form to compare them. It can compare two tarballs, ISO images, or PDF just as easily. The differences can be shown in a text or HTML report.
diffoscope is developed as part of the ??reproducible builds?? Debian project.
There are three methods to install diffoscope on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install diffoscope Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install diffoscope using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install diffoscope
Install diffoscope Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install diffoscope using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install diffoscope
Install diffoscope Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install diffoscope using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install diffoscope
How To Uninstall diffoscope on Debian 9
To uninstall only the diffoscope package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove diffoscope
Uninstall diffoscope And Its Dependencies
To uninstall diffoscope and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove diffoscope
Remove diffoscope Configurations and Data
To remove diffoscope configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge diffoscope
Remove diffoscope configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove diffoscope configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge diffoscope
Dependencies
diffoscope have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install diffoscope package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
