How to Install and Uninstall patchutils Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 20,2024

1. Install "patchutils" package

Please follow the guidance below to install patchutils on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall patchutils on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                patchutils
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the patchutils package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: patchutils
Priority: optional
Section: text
Installed-Size: 234
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.3.4-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), perl, patch, debianutils (>= 1.16)
Filename: pool/main/p/patchutils/patchutils_0.3.4-1_amd64.deb
Size: 70124
MD5sum: a97d4921c52f6e076a2a8a152e47aeb3
SHA1: 5f4af5ab6e5e278c049ef00e14216162b85ab012
SHA256: 37c0b74dfc50638a6e88cffcd5e8ac08c47087be8eb2de27e60ad5c7e3117381
Description-en: Utilities to work with patches
This package includes the following utilities:
- combinediff creates a cumulative patch from two incremental patches
- dehtmldiff extracts a diff from an HTML page
- filterdiff extracts or excludes diffs from a diff file
- fixcvsdiff fixes diff files created by CVS that "patch" mis-interprets
- flipdiff exchanges the order of two patches
- grepdiff shows which files are modified by a patch matching a regex
- interdiff shows differences between two unified diff files
- lsdiff shows which files are modified by a patch
- recountdiff recomputes counts and offsets in unified context diffs
- rediff and editdiff fix offsets and counts of a hand-edited diff
- splitdiff separates out incremental patches
- unwrapdiff demangles patches that have been word-wrapped
Description-md5: 442c0d104c6f6b7262f5dcab972c3391
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://cyberelk.net/tim/patchutils/index.html
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-usb, kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-full, edubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-usb, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-frontend, mythbuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-backend-slave, mythbuntu-backend-master, mythbuntu-backend-master, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntu-gnome-desktop, ubuntu-sdk, ubuntukylin-desktop