Installation

Difftastic can be installed as pre-built binaries or using various package managers.

Pre-Built Binaries

Difftastic releases are published as GitHub releases with pre-built binaries for Windows, macOS and Linux. Open the latest release page, download the file matching your OS and CPU architecture, and extract the difft executable application file.

Package Manager

macOS

If you're a Homebrew user, you can install difftastic with brew.

$ brew install difftastic

Linux and Unix

If you're an Arch Linux user, you can install difftastic with pacman.

$ sudo pacman -S difftastic

If you're a Nix user, you can install difftastic with nix-env.

$ nix-env --install difftastic

If you're a Fedora user, you can install difftastic with dnf.

$ sudo dnf install difftastic

If you're a FreeBSD user, you can install difftastic with pkg.

$ sudo pkg install difftastic

Windows

If you're a Windows user using Windows Package Manager (WinGet), you can install difftastic with winget.

$ winget install difftastic

If you're a Windows user using Scoop, you can install difftastic with scoop.

$ scoop install difftastic

If you're a Windows user using Chocolatey, you can install difftastic with choco.

$ choco install difftastic

Full Package Listing

This table lists all the platforms that have packaged difftastic.