How To Install colordiff on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install colordiff
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is colordiff
colordiff is:
ColorDiff is a wrapper for the ‘diff’ command. It produces the same output as diff, but with colored highlighting to improve readability. The color schemes can be customized.
The output is similar to the syntax-highlighting mode of Vim or Emacs when editing a patch created by diff.
There are three methods to install colordiff
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install colordiff Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install colordiff
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install colordiff
Install colordiff Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install colordiff
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install colordiff
Install colordiff 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install colordiff
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install colordiff
How To Uninstall colordiff on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the colordiff
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove colordiff
Uninstall colordiff And Its Dependencies
To uninstall colordiff
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove colordiff
Remove colordiff Configurations and Data
To remove colordiff
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge colordiff
Remove colordiff configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove colordiff
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge colordiff
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install colordiff
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.