How To Install diffutils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install diffutils.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. diffutils.x86_64 is A GNU collection of diff utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install diffutils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `diffutils.x86_64`

Diffutils includes four utilities Diff compares two files and shows the differences, line by line. The cmp command shows the offset and line numbers where two files differ, or cmp can show the characters that differ between the two files. The diff3 command shows the differences between three files. Diff3 can be used when two people have made independent changes to a common original; diff3 can produce a merged file that contains both sets of changes and warnings about conflicts. The sdiff command can be used to merge two files interactively. Install diffutils if you need to compare text files.

We can use yum to install diffutils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install diffutils.x86_64.

Install diffutils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install diffutils.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install diffutils.x86_64

How To Uninstall diffutils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the diffutils.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove diffutils.x86_64

diffutils.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/cmp
/usr/bin/diff
/usr/bin/diff3
/usr/bin/sdiff
/usr/share/doc/diffutils-3.3
/usr/share/doc/diffutils-3.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/diffutils-3.3/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/diffutils-3.3/README
/usr/share/info/diffutils.info.gz
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/diffutils.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/cmp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/diff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/diff3.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sdiff.1.gz

References

diffutils.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install diffutils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.