How To Install quilt on CentOS 8

quilt is Scripts for working with series of patches

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install quilt on CentOS 8.

What is `quilt`

These scripts allow one to manage a series of patches by keeping track of the changes each patch makes. Patches can be applied, un-applied, refreshed, etc. The scripts are heavily based on Andrew Morton’s patch scripts found at http

We can use yum or dnf to install quilt on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install quilt.

Install quilt on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install quilt using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install quilt

Install quilt on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install quilt using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install quilt

How To Uninstall quilt on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the quilt package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove quilt

quilt Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/bash_completion.d
/etc/bash_completion.d/quilt
/etc/quilt.quiltrc
/usr/bin/guards
/usr/bin/quilt
/usr/share/doc/quilt
/usr/share/doc/quilt/README
/usr/share/doc/quilt/README.MAIL
/usr/share/doc/quilt/TODO
/usr/share/doc/quilt/quilt.pdf
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/quilt.el
/usr/share/licenses/quilt
/usr/share/licenses/quilt/AUTHORS
/usr/share/licenses/quilt/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/quilt.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/quilt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/quilt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/quilt.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/guards.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/quilt.1.gz
/usr/share/quilt
/usr/share/quilt/add
/usr/share/quilt/annotate
/usr/share/quilt/applied
/usr/share/quilt/compat
/usr/share/quilt/compat/7z
/usr/share/quilt/compat/awk
/usr/share/quilt/compat/diffstat
/usr/share/quilt/compat/sendmail
/usr/share/quilt/delete
/usr/share/quilt/diff
/usr/share/quilt/edit
/usr/share/quilt/files
/usr/share/quilt/fold
/usr/share/quilt/fork
/usr/share/quilt/graph
/usr/share/quilt/grep
/usr/share/quilt/header
/usr/share/quilt/import
/usr/share/quilt/mail
/usr/share/quilt/new
/usr/share/quilt/next
/usr/share/quilt/patches
/usr/share/quilt/pop
/usr/share/quilt/previous
/usr/share/quilt/push
/usr/share/quilt/refresh
/usr/share/quilt/remove
/usr/share/quilt/rename
/usr/share/quilt/revert
/usr/share/quilt/scripts
/usr/share/quilt/scripts/backup-files
/usr/share/quilt/scripts/dependency-graph
/usr/share/quilt/scripts/edmail
/usr/share/quilt/scripts/inspect-wrapper
/usr/share/quilt/scripts/patchfns
/usr/share/quilt/scripts/remove-trailing-ws
/usr/share/quilt/scripts/utilfns
/usr/share/quilt/series
/usr/share/quilt/setup
/usr/share/quilt/snapshot
/usr/share/quilt/top
/usr/share/quilt/unapplied
/usr/share/quilt/upgrade

References

quilt website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install quilt on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.