How To Install diff-cover on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install diff-cover on Debian 12.
What is diff-cover
diff-cover is:
diff-cover is a tool to automatically find diff lines that need test coverage. It also finds diff lines that have violations (according to tools such as pycodestyle, pyflakes, flake8, or pylint). This can then be used as a code quality metric during code reviews.
There are three methods to install diff-cover on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install diff-cover Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install diff-cover using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install diff-cover
Install diff-cover Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install diff-cover using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install diff-cover
Install diff-cover 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 diff-cover using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install diff-cover
How To Uninstall diff-cover on Debian 12
To uninstall only the diff-cover package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove diff-cover
Uninstall diff-cover And Its Dependencies
To uninstall diff-cover and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove diff-cover
Remove diff-cover Configurations and Data
To remove diff-cover configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge diff-cover
Remove diff-cover configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove diff-cover configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge diff-cover
Dependencies
diff-cover have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install diff-cover package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
