[SOLVED] Kubuntu Kompare or Compare

Crb999 · 05-10-2024, 05:04 AM

PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="22.04"
VERSION="22.04.4 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)"
VERSION_CODENAME=jammy
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian

Hi All,

A little while ago, months rather than years, i needed to compare two documents so as to produce a composite.
My notes tell me that i used:

kompare text1.txt text2.txt

This produced for me a screen with the two documents side by side, and differences were highlighted in colour.
But it doesn't work now!

I can use diff, but in a 60,000 word document, keeping track of which line comes from which document seems impossible.

What am i doing wrong?

All guidance apreciated.

regards

chris

pan64 · 05-10-2024, 05:45 AM

what do you mean by "it doesn't work"?
Is it properly installed? How did you try it?

Crb999 · 05-10-2024, 06:40 AM

Hi pan64,

"differences were highlighted in colour.
But it doesn't work now" Not clear enough, ok.

Code:

root@crb999-OptiPlex-7010:/# cat /home/crb999/Compare/crb1.txt 
this is a simple line

AND THIS iSn'T
root@crb999-OptiPlex-7010:/# cat /home/crb999/Compare/crb2.txt 
this IS a simple line 

and ths in't
root@crb999-OptiPlex-7010:/# 

root@crb999-OptiPlex-7010:/# kompare /home/crb999/Compare/crb1.txt /home/crb999/Compare/crb2.txt

That last command line produces this, if i can get a picture on here.

rclark · 05-10-2024, 11:13 AM

You know, I've ran into this as well with xiphos Bible program on 22.04 KUbuntu. The program 'works', but no text displayed in any of the panes. I don't have a solution either... Hoping a later update will magically fix it

. Went to my 24.04 machine and it works as it should there. A bit of web searching did say that a video sub system/renderer/webkit was 'broken' or something. I use an Nvidia card if that matters here. Oh one solution mentioned was go back to the 'default' driver instead of the Nvidia driver. Never tried that though.

Crb999 · 05-10-2024, 02:59 PM

Thanks rclark

I'm trying KDiff3 interesting!

wpeckham · 05-10-2024, 03:07 PM

You might also look into sdiff. That is my tool of choice for this.

rclark · 05-10-2024, 04:24 PM

On Windoze I use WinMerge (at work). Really like it there. I've not had a need for some reason on Linux yet to check diff and merge files. I do prefer a gui for this activity as I not only compare, but also move the changed sections to the other file if needed. Do this a lot when our Energy Management System (EMS) gets us an service pack. Need to compare source files where we made custom changes and such and re-merge where needed. Oh, and it looks like it is supposed to run under Wine.

Looks like KDiff3 hasn't been touched since 2014.

Crb999 · 05-11-2024, 02:09 PM

Thanks all.

I eventually used KDiff3.

Once I'd changed all the defaults and could read the screen, the real work started.
It wasn't easy.

The original program would have been faster, not in it°s operation, but in my implimentation of what I saw.

None the less 177,000 weords later, job's done.

Thanks for your guidance folks.

Regaros

Chris

pan64 · 05-13-2024, 12:44 AM

you can also try meld .