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jmarina
Asked: 2018-06-14 00:44:43 +0800 CST

is there a version of kdiff3 without kde dependencies?

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I use xfce4 desktop environment, and when installing kdiff3 it pulls 173 packages(116 MB of archives) with sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends kdiff3 and 251 packages (131 MB of archives) with sudo apt-get install kdiff3 a lot of the packages appear to be from kde desktop; is there a version of kdiff3 without kde dependencies? kdiff3 is a great diff tool but it would be nice if it didn't require 508 MB of disk space to install

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    Unfortunately the K in kdiff3 stands for KDE and so relies on many KDE dependencies. Also, I understand development has ceased some time ago on kdiff3.

    There is also Kompare for visual diffs, with even more dependencies (as shown by apt show kompare).

    There's a chance that kdiff3-qt might suffice for you though, it doesn't have all the features:

    This version of KDiff3 [kdiff-qt] is stripped-down so that it doesn't depend on the KDE libraries. The package "kdiff3" contains the full-featured version of the program.

    Instead you might want to try Meld (link to alternativeto.net as it shows other alternatives and pros/cons) which also does 3 way compares and has a similar style. It's open source and cross platform.

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