LibreMerge
LibreMerge brings the comparison engine of WinMerge to Linux and macOS, with a native Qt interface. If you know WinMerge, you already know LibreMerge: the layout, the colors and the workflow are intentionally the same.
- Side-by-side file comparison and merging, 2-way and 3-way, with word-level highlights, free editing and undo
- Folder comparison, 2-way and 3-way, with WinMerge's compare methods, file filters, View filters, copy and delete
- Archive comparison: zip, 7z and tar archives open as folders
- CSV and TSV tables compared cell by cell, and images compared pixel by pixel
- Syntax highlighting for 47 languages, light and dark themes
- Works as git's merge and diff tool
Compatibility: Uses the C library of the system (may need glibc 2.35 or later)
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Usage
LibreMerge is available as an AppImage which means "one app = one file", which you can download and run on your Linux system while you don't need a package manager and nothing gets changed in your system. Awesome!
AppImages are single-file applications that run on most Linux distributions. Download an application, make it executable, and run! No need to install. No system libraries or system preferences are altered. Most AppImages run on recent versions of Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and other common desktop distributions.
This AppImage uses the C library of the system and may need glibc 2.35 or later. It does not run on distributions that use a different C library (such as musl on Alpine Linux) or an older glibc.
Running LibreMerge on Linux without installation
Unlike other applications, AppImages do not need to be installed before they can be used. However, they need to be marked as executable before they can be run. This is a Linux security feature.Beware! AppImages are usually not verified by others. Follow these instructions only if you trust the developer of the software. Use at your own risk!
Download the LibreMerge AppImage and make it executable using your file manager or by entering the following commands in a terminal:
chmod +x ./*.AppImageThen double-click the AppImage in the file manager to open it.
Sandboxing LibreMerge
If you want to restrict what LibreMerge can do on your system, you can run the AppImage in a sandbox like Firejail. This is entirely optional and currently needs to be configured by the user.
Updating LibreMerge
If you would like to update to a new version, simply download the new LibreMerge AppImage.
Integrating AppImages into the system
If you would like to have the executable bit set automatically, and would like to see LibreMerge and other AppImages integrated into the system (menus, icons, file type associations, etc.), then you may want to check the optional appimaged daemon.
Note for application authors
Thanks for distributing LibreMerge in the AppImage format for all common Linux distributions. Great! Here are some ideas on how to make it even better.
Pro Tips for further enhancing the LibreMerge AppImage
Please consider to add update information to the LibreMerge AppImage and ship a .zsync file so that it can be updated using AppImageUpdate. Tools like appimagetool and linuxdeployqt can do this for you easily.
Please consider making the LibreMerge AppImage self-contained, so that it does not depend on the C library of the system and runs on more distributions: ship the C library including its loader (ld-linux-*.so.*) and use it to launch the application, or link statically.
Thanks for shipping AppStream metainfo inside your AppImage. Please open a pull request on https://github.com/AppImage/appimage.github.io/blob/master/data/LibreMerge if you have changed it and would like to see this page updated accordingly.