How To Install fixcvsdiff on Ubuntu 22.04

One-liner install command

For those in a hurry, here's a one-line installation command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install patchutils

But if you are interested in the detailed steps with descriptions, the following information is for you.

What is fixcvsdiff and what are the ways to install it?

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Ubuntu 22.04. This guide was written specifically with a server running Ubuntu 22.04 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install fixcvsdiff on Ubuntu 22.04. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install fixcvsdiff using apt-get

First, update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt-get database, You can install fixcvsdiff using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install patchutils

Install fixcvsdiff using apt

Because fixcvsdiff is available in Ubuntu 22.04’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the apt packaging system.

To begin, update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, You can install fixcvsdiff using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install patchutils

Install fixcvsdiff 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 22.04. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating aptitude database, You can install fixcvsdiff by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install patchutils

How to upgrade (update) a single package fixcvsdiff using apt-get?

First, you will need to update packages index. Run update command as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Next, to upgrade only the fixcvsdiff, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install patchutils

Note that this command will not install any new packages! If you wish to install the package if it doesn't exist you may leave out --only-upgrade part.

sudo apt-get install patchutils

How To Uninstall fixcvsdiff from Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the fixcvsdiff package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove patchutils

Uninstall fixcvsdiff and all its dependencies

To uninstall fixcvsdiff and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, you can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove patchutils

Remove fixcvsdiff with all configurations and data

To remove fixcvsdiff configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge patchutils

Remove fixcvsdiff completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

And lastly, you can run the next command to remove absolutely everything related to fixcvsdiff package, e.g.: configurations, data and all of its dependencies. Just use this command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge patchutils

Extra info and code examples

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

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install fixcvsdiff using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the fixcvsdiff from Ubuntu 22.04.

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