How To Install patchutils on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install patchutils on Ubuntu 22.04. patchutils is Utilities to work with patches

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install patchutils on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is patchutils

patchutils is:

This package includes the following utilities:

  • combinediff creates a cumulative patch from two incremental patches
  • dehtmldiff extracts a diff from an HTML page
  • filterdiff extracts or excludes diffs from a diff file
  • fixcvsdiff fixes diff files created by CVS that “patch” mis-interprets
  • flipdiff exchanges the order of two patches
  • grepdiff shows which files are modified by a patch matching a regex
  • interdiff shows differences between two unified diff files
  • lsdiff shows which files are modified by a patch
  • recountdiff recomputes counts and offsets in unified context diffs
  • rediff and editdiff fix offsets and counts of a hand-edited diff
  • splitdiff separates out incremental patches
  • unwrapdiff demangles patches that have been word-wrapped

There are three methods to install patchutils on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install patchutils Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install patchutils

Install patchutils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install patchutils

Install patchutils 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 patchutils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install patchutils

How To Uninstall patchutils on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove patchutils

Uninstall patchutils And Its Dependencies

To uninstall patchutils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove patchutils

Remove patchutils Configurations and Data

To remove patchutils configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge patchutils

Remove patchutils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge patchutils

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install patchutils package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.