How To Install duff on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install duff
on Debian 10.
What is duff
duff is:
Duff is a command-line utility for identifying duplicates in a given set of files. It attempts to be usably fast and uses the SHA family of message digests as a part of the comparisons.
There are three methods to install duff
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install duff Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install duff
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install duff
Install duff Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install duff
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install duff
Install duff 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 duff
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install duff
How To Uninstall duff on Debian 10
To uninstall only the duff
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove duff
Uninstall duff And Its Dependencies
To uninstall duff
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove duff
Remove duff Configurations and Data
To remove duff
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge duff
Remove duff configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove duff
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge duff
Dependencies
duff have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install duff
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.