How To Install tardiff on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tardiff on Kali Linux.

What is tardiff

tardiff is:

TarDiff compares the contents of two tarballs and reports on any differences found between them. 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.

There are three methods to install tardiff on Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tardiff

Remove tardiff Configurations and Data

To remove tardiff configuration and data from Kali Linux 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:

• libtext-diff-perl
• perl

References

• tardiff website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tardiff package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.