How to Install and Uninstall diffoscope Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "diffoscope" package

This tutorial shows how to install diffoscope on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


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

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall diffoscope on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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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 11 (Bullseye)

Package: diffoscope
Version: 177
Installed-Size: 68
Maintainer: Reproducible builds folks
Architecture: all
Depends: diffoscope-minimal
Recommends: abootimg, acl, apksigner, 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, gnupg-utils, hdf5-tools, imagemagick, jsbeautifier, libarchive-tools, llvm, lz4 | liblz4-tool, 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 | vim-common, xz-utils, zip, zstd, python3-argcomplete, python3-binwalk, python3-debian, python3-defusedxml, python3-guestfs, python3-jsondiff, python3-progressbar, python3-pypdf2, python3-pyxattr, python3-rpm, python3-tlsh (>= 3.4.1)
Suggests: libjs-jquery
Enhances: diffoscope-core
Description: in-depth visual diff tool for files, archives and directories
Description-md5: 4030ba474c3a47868fbea9b4203c7ea0
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_177_all.deb
Size: 62072
MD5sum: 2ea56055e140cccff7065b2d37793b46
SHA256: be8f457f24c1c297456975f6559f93a5f380cf787959d1015c6ec148550711c1