How To Install patchutils on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install patchutils on Ubuntu.
What is patchutils
patchutils is:
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
There are three methods to install patchutils on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install patchutils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install patchutils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install patchutils
Install patchutils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install patchutils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install patchutils
Install patchutils Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install patchutils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install patchutils
How To Uninstall patchutils on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the patchutils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove patchutils
Uninstall patchutils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall patchutils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove patchutils
Remove patchutils Configurations and Data
To remove patchutils configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge patchutils
Remove patchutils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove patchutils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge patchutils
Dependencies
patchutils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install patchutils package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.