How to Install and Uninstall diffoscope Package on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "diffoscope" package

This is a short guide on how to install diffoscope on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)


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

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall diffoscope on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)

Package: diffoscope
Architecture: all
Version: 259
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Reproducible builds folks
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 46
Depends: diffoscope-minimal (= 259)
Recommends: 7zip, 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-utils, gpg, hdf5-tools, html2text, imagemagick, jsbeautifier, libarchive-tools, libxmlb-utils, 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
Filename: pool/universe/d/diffoscope/diffoscope_259_all.deb
Size: 4992
MD5sum: 1abbf99d5c06d5a5dd0d37d4c842f57e
SHA1: 8ee9d868120988274441aff54eeeacb4b8d9af17
SHA256: 7b6ac611d36568a3028d4b5d8a6490a644fe36b0150d804a10bd3df0ac5c008f
SHA512: bfccef4adf1951d8056db1b67595882057e4b97d54306cb1a23daa1ca7f8088ac8c6a3d848002bef0ff5e8d42ecd6d0b3abad83efd46fc61872eb4c94d0bf2db
Homepage: https://diffoscope.org
Description: in-depth visual diff tool for files, archives and directories
Description-md5: fc02c0781608f66a514560b96c7f91ee