How To Install diffutils on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install diffutils on Debian 11.
What is diffutils
diffutils is:
The diffutils package provides the diff, diff3, sdiff, and cmp programs.
diff' shows differences between two files, or each corresponding file in two directories. cmp’ shows the offsets and line numbers where
two files differ. cmp' can also show all the characters that differ between the two files, side by side. diff3’ shows differences
among three files. `sdiff’ merges two files interactively.
The set of differences produced by diff' can be used to distribute updates to text files (such as program source code) to other people. This method is especially useful when the differences are small compared to the complete files. Given diff’ output, the `patch’ program can
update, or “patch”, a copy of the file.
There are three methods to install diffutils on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install diffutils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install diffutils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install diffutils
Install diffutils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install diffutils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install diffutils
Install diffutils 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 diffutils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install diffutils
How To Uninstall diffutils on Debian 11
To uninstall only the diffutils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove diffutils
Uninstall diffutils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall diffutils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove diffutils
Remove diffutils Configurations and Data
To remove diffutils configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge diffutils
Remove diffutils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove diffutils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge diffutils
Dependencies
diffutils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install diffutils package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
