How To Install imediff on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install imediff on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is imediff
imediff is:
The imediff command helps you to merge 2 slightly different files with an optional base file interactively using the in-place alternating display of the changed content on a single-pane full screen terminal user interface.
The source of line is clearly identified by the color of the line or the identifier character at the first column.
The advantage of this user interface is the minimal movement of the line of sight for the user.
The line matching logic of imediff has been improved to ignore whitespaces and use partial line matches to provide the best presentation with small chunk of lines.
The automatic 3 way merge logic of the imediff command operates not only on the difference by line but on the difference by character. This is another great feature of the imediff command. So for the non-overlapping changes, it always yields the clean merge.
The “git ime” command helps you to unsquash 2 consecutive commits (HEAD^,
HEAD) of a git repository. The “git rebase -i
If any staged changes or local uncommitted changes are found in the git repository, “git ime” immediately exits without changes to be on the safe side.
If the latest commit involves multiple files, “git ime” splits this big commit by the file into multiple smaller commits involving a single file for each commit.
If the latest commit involves only a single file, the commit is split into multiple smaller commits involving a set of minimal partial changes by imediff to be managed interactively later.
This “git ime” is not only useful at the checked out branch head but
also at “edit” prompt during the interactive execution of “git rebase -i
There are three methods to install imediff 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 imediff Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install imediff using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install imediff
Install imediff Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install imediff using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install imediff
Install imediff 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 imediff using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install imediff
How To Uninstall imediff on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the imediff package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove imediff
Uninstall imediff And Its Dependencies
To uninstall imediff and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove imediff
Remove imediff Configurations and Data
To remove imediff configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge imediff
Remove imediff configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove imediff configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge imediff
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install imediff package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
