How to Install and Uninstall diffoscope Package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "diffoscope" package

Please follow the guidance below to install diffoscope on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)


    
        
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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 steps below to uninstall diffoscope on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver):


    
        
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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 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Package: diffoscope
Architecture: all
Version: 93ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Reproducible builds folks
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 539
Depends: python3-distutils, python3-pkg-resources, python3-distro, python3-libarchive-c, python3-magic, python3:any (>= 3.3.2-2~)
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, fontforge-extras, fp-utils, genisoimage, gettext, ghc, ghostscript, giflib-tools, gnumeric, gnupg, imagemagick, jsbeautifier, libarchive-tools, llvm, mono-utils, odt2txt, oggvideotools, openssh-client, pdftk, pgpdump, poppler-utils, procyon-decompiler, r-base-core, rpm2cpio, sng, sqlite3, squashfs-tools, tcpdump, unzip, xmlutils, xxd | vim-common, xz-utils, python3-argcomplete, python3-binwalk, python3-debian, python3-defusedxml, python3-guestfs, python3-jsondiff, python3-progressbar, python3-pyxattr, python3-tlsh (>= 3.4.1)
Suggests: libjs-jquery
Breaks: debbindiff (<< 29)
Replaces: debbindiff (<< 29)
Filename: pool/universe/d/diffoscope/diffoscope_93ubuntu1_all.deb
Size: 93596
MD5sum: 21294f93f4e530bfec7ca5c5680ef4a0
SHA1: 57b22379696258b2295392e5487fb9250a2a6b93
SHA256: eb763f82d61067c4e4f4d4b1e6c7cfd9868fdebf40cc3f44657d045b7ed7b714
Homepage: https://diffoscope.org
Description: in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories
Description-md5: 4421ffce907e2e9f83ba162e9e59aefe