How To Install difference on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install difference
on Ubuntu 22.04.
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
There are three methods to install difference
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 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 22.04
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 22.04, 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 22.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install difference
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.