How to Install and Uninstall diffoscope Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 11,2024

You can also install and uninstall the diffoscope on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "diffoscope" package

Please follow the guidance below to install diffoscope on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall diffoscope on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the diffoscope package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: diffoscope
Version: 240
Installed-Size: 43
Maintainer: Reproducible builds folks
Architecture: all
Depends: diffoscope-minimal (= 240)
Recommends: aapt, abootimg, acl, apksigcopier, apksigner, apktool, binutils-multiarch, bzip2, caca-utils, colord, coreboot-utils, db-util, default-jdk-headless | default-jdk | java-sdk, device-tree-compiler, dexdump, docx2txt, e2fsprogs, enjarify, ffmpeg, fontforge-extras, fonttools, fp-utils, genisoimage, gettext, ghc, ghostscript, giflib-tools, gnumeric, gnupg, gnupg-utils, hdf5-tools, html2text, imagemagick, jsbeautifier, libarchive-tools, libxmlb-dev, llvm, lz4 | liblz4-tool, lzip, mono-utils, ocaml-nox, odt2txt, oggvideotools, openssh-client, openssl, pgpdump, poppler-utils, procyon-decompiler, python3-pdfminer, r-base-core, radare2, rpm2cpio, sng, sqlite3, squashfs-tools, tcpdump, u-boot-tools, unzip, wabt, xmlbeans, xxd, xz-utils, zip, zstd, androguard, python3-argcomplete, python3-binwalk, python3-debian, python3-defusedxml, python3-guestfs, python3-jsondiff, python3-progressbar, python3-pypdf, python3-pyxattr, python3-rpm, python3-tlsh (>= 3.4.1)
Suggests: libjs-jquery
Enhances: diffoscope-minimal
Description: in-depth visual diff tool for files, archives and directories
Description-md5: ad42aa78feb67db158ead2f435531c34
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_240_all.deb
Size: 35440
MD5sum: 4b5e2a99064ba5102ec372e5313b3d17
SHA256: d57400ac30571c82ab76acd31f26884fbabbbb8ad450fa0a058c725c92b5a7b6