How To Install gquilt on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gquilt on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gquilt
gquilt is:
Quilt and mercurial are programs that manages a series of patches, with a focus on handling patch dependencies and allowing easy management of large sets of patches.
Gquilt is a GTK+-based GUI wrapper for the quilt and mercurial programs, providing a simple graphical interface for a range of commands.
There are three methods to install gquilt on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gquilt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gquilt using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gquilt
Install gquilt Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gquilt using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gquilt
Install gquilt Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gquilt using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gquilt
How To Uninstall gquilt on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gquilt package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gquilt
Uninstall gquilt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gquilt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gquilt
Remove gquilt Configurations and Data
To remove gquilt configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gquilt
Remove gquilt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gquilt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gquilt
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gquilt package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
