How to Install and Uninstall diffoscope Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "diffoscope" package

This tutorial shows how to install diffoscope on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "diffoscope" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall diffoscope on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                diffoscope
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the diffoscope package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: diffoscope
Version: 113
Installed-Size: 576
Maintainer: Reproducible builds folks
Architecture: all
Depends: python3-distutils | libpython3.5-stdlib | libpython3.6-stdlib (<< 3.6.5~rc1-2), python3-pkg-resources, python3-distro, python3-libarchive-c, python3-magic, python3:any
Recommends: abootimg, acl, apktool, binutils-multiarch, bzip2, caca-utils, colord, db-util, default-jdk-headless | default-jdk | java-sdk, device-tree-compiler, docx2txt, e2fsprogs, enjarify, ffmpeg, fontforge-extras, fp-utils, genisoimage, gettext, ghc, ghostscript, giflib-tools, gnumeric, gnupg, imagemagick, jsbeautifier, libarchive-tools, llvm, lz4 | liblz4-tool, mono-utils, ocaml-nox, odt2txt, oggvideotools, openssh-client, pgpdump, poppler-utils, procyon-decompiler, r-base-core, rpm2cpio, sng, sqlite3, squashfs-tools, tcpdump, unzip, xmlbeans, xxd | vim-common, xz-utils, zip, python3-argcomplete, python3-binwalk, python3-debian, python3-defusedxml, python3-guestfs, python3-jsondiff, python3-progressbar, python3-pypdf2, python3-pyxattr, python3-tlsh (>= 3.4.1)
Suggests: libjs-jquery
Description: in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories
Description-md5: 4421ffce907e2e9f83ba162e9e59aefe
Homepage: https://diffoscope.org
Tag: devel::prettyprint, devel::testing-qa, implemented-in::python,
interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility,
security::forensics, use::analysing, use::checking, use::comparing,
use::converting, works-with-format::diff, works-with-format::elf,
works-with-format::epub, works-with-format::html,
works-with-format::info, works-with-format::jpg,
works-with-format::json, works-with-format::man,
works-with-format::oggvorbis, works-with-format::pdf,
works-with-format::plaintext, works-with-format::png,
works-with-format::po, works-with-format::postscript,
works-with-format::tar, works-with-format::zip, works-with::archive,
works-with::file, works-with::software:package, works-with::text
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/d/diffoscope/diffoscope_113_all.deb
Size: 129236
MD5sum: 4fabb8faf498a14f126be58810102332
SHA256: ee33ef3f90f121929e5e03871be13f75eddf4ee178312f41e3a2a0a04fc402de