How To Install imediff on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install imediff
on Debian 11.
What is imediff
imediff is:
The imediff command helps you to merge 2 slightly different files with an optional base file interactively using the in-place alternating display of the changed content on a single-pane full screen terminal user interface.
The source of line is clearly identified by the color of the line or the identifier character at the first column.
The advantage of this user interface is the minimal movement of the line of sight for the user. Other great tools such as vimdiff, xxdiff, meld and kdiff3 require you to look at different points of display to find the exact position of changes. This makes imediff the most stress-free tool.
Other great tools for merge such as “diff3 -m …” and “git merge …” operate only on the difference by line. So even for the non-overlapping changes, they yield the merge conflict if changes happen on the same line.
The automatic merge logic of the imediff command operates not only on the difference by line but on the difference by character. This is another great feature of the imediff command. So for the non-overlapping changes, it always yields the clean merge.
This comes with git-ime script which helps you to split squished git commit using imediff and with a support script to use imediff as the backend of git-mergetool.
There are three methods to install imediff
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 imediff Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install imediff
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install imediff
Install imediff Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install imediff
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install imediff
Install imediff 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 imediff
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install imediff
How To Uninstall imediff on Debian 11
To uninstall only the imediff
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove imediff
Uninstall imediff And Its Dependencies
To uninstall imediff
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove imediff
Remove imediff Configurations and Data
To remove imediff
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge imediff
Remove imediff configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove imediff
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge imediff
Dependencies
imediff have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install imediff
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.