docdiff software package provides Compares two files word by word / char by char, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install docdiff
docdiff is installed in your system.
Make ensure the docdiff package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep docdiff *
You will get with docdiff package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | docdiff |
| Version | 0.5.0+git20160313-1 |
| Description | Compares two files word by word / char by char |
| Sub Section | text |