How to Install and Uninstall diffoscope Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: November 22,2024

1. Install "diffoscope" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install diffoscope on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Learn how to uninstall diffoscope on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: diffoscope
Architecture: all
Version: 180
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Reproducible builds folks
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 69
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
Filename: pool/universe/d/diffoscope/diffoscope_180_all.deb
Size: 4804
MD5sum: 601939e5c44034ffb97f1507f09f7810
SHA1: b46b671c00a898945f85102e3eb11cdb8150bbea
SHA256: a0787e1332e962b3efa5a97709851a2d848fe38543840efcde88532a9beaa7ea
SHA512: 6b358a372db56aee3a4437b236b98ebb496041a46df8e61c56d152bbfe12aa80feab18750fc5a28b66a9da78fd51add5c381c9d88e9a4b2c2b94f9037483614f
Homepage: https://diffoscope.org
Description-en: in-depth visual diff tool for files, archives and directories
diffoscope is a visual diff tool that attempts try to get to the bottom of
what makes files or directories actually different.
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It can recursively unpack archives of many kinds, transforming various binary
formats into more human-readable form to compare them in a human-readable way.
It can compare two tarballs, ISO images or PDFs just as easily. The
differences can be displayed on the console or in a HTML report.
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This is a dependency package that recommends the full set of external tools,
to support as many type of files as possible.
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File formats supported include: Android APK files, Android boot images, Apple
Xcode mobile provisioning files, ar(1) archives, ASM Function, Berkeley DB
database files, bzip2 archives, character/block devices, ColorSync colour
profiles (.icc), Coreboot CBFS filesystem images, cpio archives, Dalvik .dex
files, Debian .buildinfo files, Debian .changes files, Debian source packages
(.dsc), Device Tree Compiler blob files, directories, ELF binaries,
ext2/ext3/ext4/btrfs/fat filesystems, Flattened Image Tree blob files,
FreeDesktop Fontconfig cache files, FreePascal files (.ppu), Gettext message
catalogues, GHC Haskell .hi files, GIF image files, Git repositories, GNU R
database files (.rdb), GNU R Rscript files (.rds), Gnumeric spreadsheets, GPG
keybox databases, Gzipped files, Hierarchical Data Format database, ISO 9660 CD
images, Java .class files, Java .jmod modules, JavaScript files, JPEG images,
JSON files, LLVM IR bitcode files, LZ4 compressed files, macOS binaries,
Microsoft Windows icon files, Microsoft Word .docx files, Mono 'Portable
Executable' files, Mozilla-optimized .ZIP archives, Multimedia metadata, OCaml
interface files, Ogg Vorbis audio files, OpenOffice .odt files, OpenSSH public
keys, OpenWRT package archives (.ipk), PDF documents, PE32 files, PGP
signatures, PGP signed/encrypted messages, PNG images, PostScript documents,
Public Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) files (version #7), RPM archives, Rust
object files (.deflate), SQLite databases, SquashFS filesystems, symlinks, tape
archives (.tar), tcpdump capture files (.pcap), text files, TrueType font
files, U-Boot legacy image files, WebAssembly binary module, XML binary schemas
(.xsb), XML files, XZ compressed files, ZIP archives and Zstandard compressed
files.
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diffoscope is developed as part of the Reproducible Builds project.
Description-md5: e4c96524c41f5b3953fd08dd5447153d