How To Install quilt on Debian 12

Learn how to install quilt on Debian 12 with this tutorial. quilt is Tool to work with series of patches

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install quilt on Debian 12.

What is quilt

quilt is:

Quilt manages a series of patches by keeping track of the changes each of them makes. They are logically organized as a stack, and you can apply, un-apply, refresh them easily by traveling into the stack (push/pop).

Quilt is good for managing additional patches applied to a package received as a tarball or maintained in another version control system. The stacked organization is proven to be efficient for the management of very large patch sets (more than hundred patches). As matter of fact, it was designed by and for Linux kernel hackers (Andrew Morton, from the -mm branch, is the original author), and its main use by the current upstream maintainer is to manage the (hundreds of) patches against the kernel made for the SUSE distribution.

This package provides seamless integration into Debhelper or CDBS, allowing maintainers to easily add a quilt-based patch management system in their packages. The package also provides some basic support for those not using those tools. See README.Debian for more information.

There are three methods to install quilt on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install quilt Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install quilt using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install quilt

Install quilt Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install quilt

Install quilt 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install quilt

How To Uninstall quilt on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove quilt

Uninstall quilt And Its Dependencies

To uninstall quilt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove quilt

Remove quilt Configurations and Data

To remove quilt configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge quilt

Remove quilt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove quilt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge quilt

Dependencies

quilt have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install quilt package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.