How To Install quilt on Fedora 34

quilt is Scripts for working with series of patches

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install quilt on Fedora 34.

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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install quilt.

Install quilt on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove quilt

quilt Package Contents on Fedora 34

/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.