How To Install kdiff3-qt on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kdiff3-qt
on Debian 9.
What is kdiff3-qt
kdiff3-qt is:
KDiff3 compares two or three input files and shows the differences line by line and character by character. It provides an automatic merge facility and an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge conflicts. KDiff3 allows recursive directory comparison and merging as well.
This version of KDiff3 is stripped-down so that it doesn’t depend on the KDE libraries. The package “kdiff3” contains the full-featured version of the program.
There are three methods to install kdiff3-qt
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 kdiff3-qt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install kdiff3-qt
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kdiff3-qt
Install kdiff3-qt Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install kdiff3-qt
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kdiff3-qt
Install kdiff3-qt 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 kdiff3-qt
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kdiff3-qt
How To Uninstall kdiff3-qt on Debian 9
To uninstall only the kdiff3-qt
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kdiff3-qt
Uninstall kdiff3-qt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kdiff3-qt
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kdiff3-qt
Remove kdiff3-qt Configurations and Data
To remove kdiff3-qt
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kdiff3-qt
Remove kdiff3-qt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kdiff3-qt
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kdiff3-qt
Dependencies
kdiff3-qt have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kdiff3-qt
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.