How To Install diffoscope on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install diffoscope
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is diffoscope
diffoscope is:
diffoscope will try to get to the bottom of what makes files or directories different. It will recursively unpack archives of many kinds and transform various binary formats into more human readable form to compare them. It can compare two tarballs, ISO images, or PDF just as easily. The differences can be shown in a text or HTML report.
diffoscope is developed as part of the “reproducible builds” project.
There are three methods to install diffoscope
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install diffoscope Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install diffoscope
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install diffoscope
Install diffoscope Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install diffoscope
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install diffoscope
Install diffoscope 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 diffoscope
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install diffoscope
How To Uninstall diffoscope on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the diffoscope
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove diffoscope
Uninstall diffoscope And Its Dependencies
To uninstall diffoscope
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove diffoscope
Remove diffoscope Configurations and Data
To remove diffoscope
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge diffoscope
Remove diffoscope configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove diffoscope
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge diffoscope
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install diffoscope
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.