How To Install difference on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install difference on Ubuntu 20.04. difference is text diffing tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install difference on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is difference

difference is:

difference compares two strings and prints a colorful visual representation of the diff.

This package contains the following binaries built from the Rust crate “difference”:

  • difference X-Cargo-Built-Using: rust-getopts (= 0.2.21-2), rust-unicode-width (= 0.1.7-1), rustc (= 1.41.0+dfsg1+llvm-0ubuntu1)

There are three methods to install difference on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install difference Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install difference using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install difference

Install difference Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install difference using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install difference

Install difference 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 difference using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install difference

How To Uninstall difference on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the difference package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove difference

Uninstall difference And Its Dependencies

To uninstall difference and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove difference

Remove difference Configurations and Data

To remove difference configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge difference

Remove difference configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove difference configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge difference

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install difference package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.