How To Install stgit on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stgit
on Debian 11.
What is stgit
stgit is:
stgit provides similar functionality to quilt (i.e. pushing/popping patches to/from a stack) on top of git.
These operations are performed using git commands and the patches are stored as git commit objects, allowing easy merging of the stgit patches into other repositories using standard git functionality.
There are three methods to install stgit
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install stgit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install stgit
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stgit
Install stgit Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stgit
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stgit
Install stgit 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 stgit
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stgit
How To Uninstall stgit on Debian 11
To uninstall only the stgit
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stgit
Uninstall stgit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stgit
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stgit
Remove stgit Configurations and Data
To remove stgit
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stgit
Remove stgit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stgit
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stgit
Dependencies
stgit have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stgit
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.