How To Install makepatch on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install makepatch
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is makepatch
makepatch is:
This package contains a pair of programs, makepatch and applypatch, to assist in the generation and application of patch kits to synchronise source trees.
makepatch knows about common conventions for patch kits (it generates Index: and Prereq: lines, it patches patchlevel.h first, it can use manifest files), plus it prepends some shell code which if run will take care adding directories, removing files, setting execute mode on scripts, and the like.
applypatch uses some extra data supplied by makepatch to verify both the patch and the source directory before applying the patch. Afterwards it will clean up the directory tree plus fix up the permissions and even the timestamps on the patched files.
There are three methods to install makepatch
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install makepatch Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install makepatch
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install makepatch
Install makepatch Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install makepatch
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install makepatch
Install makepatch 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 makepatch
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install makepatch
How To Uninstall makepatch on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the makepatch
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove makepatch
Uninstall makepatch And Its Dependencies
To uninstall makepatch
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove makepatch
Remove makepatch Configurations and Data
To remove makepatch
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge makepatch
Remove makepatch configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove makepatch
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge makepatch
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install makepatch
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.