How To Install tardiff on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tardiff on Debian 12.
What is tardiff
tardiff is:
TarDiff is a simple tool that compares the contents of two tarballs and reports primarily file list differences found between them.
It can also list files which only had modified content, but are present in both tarballs. It though does not show the actually content differences, just which files differ.
Its use is mainly for release managers who can use it as a QA tool to make sure no files have accidentally been left over or were added by mistake. TarDiff supports compressed tarballs, diff statistics and suppression of GNU autotool changes.
For more detailed diffs like e.g. finding different timestamps inside a tar ball or similar minimal changes which still cause differences in hashsums or make a few bytes size difference, please have a look at diffoscope or the diffoscope-minimal package. Diffoscope can also compare many more file types than just tarballs, but also has more hard dependencies and a lot of optional dependencies for specific file formats.
There are three methods to install tardiff 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 tardiff Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tardiff using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tardiff
Install tardiff Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tardiff using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tardiff
Install tardiff 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 tardiff using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tardiff
How To Uninstall tardiff on Debian 12
To uninstall only the tardiff package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tardiff
Uninstall tardiff And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tardiff and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tardiff
Remove tardiff Configurations and Data
To remove tardiff configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tardiff
Remove tardiff configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tardiff configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tardiff
Dependencies
tardiff have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tardiff package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
