Visual diff tool?

Serge de Souza serge at cs.curtin.edu.au
Fri Jan 28 16:08:46 UTC 2005


Tarjei Knapstad wrote:
> I'd like to compare the packages installed on two different systems, and
> have them presented in a nice way. So far I've done
> 
> rpm -qa | sort > packages_box1.txt
> 
> on both boxes and then used diff to compare them, but I'd like to have
> the diff presented visually if possible (very much like Cervisia
> presents diffs between CVS revisions).
> 
> Is there any tool available in Fedora that can do this? (OK, I could use
> the same filename for both, commit them as two different revisions in a
> CVS rep, and then do a diff in Cervisia, but that's a bit cumbersome :))
> 
> --
> Tarjei
> 

try vimdiff file1 file2

or gvimdiff

Chances are they are already installed on your system

-- 
Serge




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