How To Install quilt on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install quilt on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove quilt
Remove quilt Configurations and Data
To remove quilt configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install quilt package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
