6.40. Installing Diffutils-2.8.1

6.40.1. Contents of Diffutils

The programs from this package show you the differences between two files or directories. It's most common use is to create software patches.

Installed programs: cmp, diff, diff3 and sdiff

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6.40.3. Diffutils Installation Dependencies

Diffutils depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.

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6.40.5. Installation of Diffutils

Prepare Diffutils for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr

Compile the package:

make

And install it:

make install