How to Install and Uninstall quilt Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "quilt" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install quilt on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                quilt
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "quilt" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall quilt on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                quilt
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the quilt package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: quilt
Priority: optional
Section: universe/devel
Installed-Size: 784
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Martin Quinson
Architecture: all
Version: 0.63-3
Depends: patch (>= 2.6), diffstat, bzip2, gettext, bsdmainutils, perl
Recommends: less
Suggests: procmail, graphviz, default-mta | mail-transport-agent
Filename: pool/universe/q/quilt/quilt_0.63-3_all.deb
Size: 272218
MD5sum: 0be4369bf16c78e8d319bf852a40993a
SHA1: c51265a4c44484355947ece41ead44f342ee13e5
SHA256: 348b09a95f15a79e7f486ec6dbce07c089b23aba2b87ec74bd706aa61ee131be
Description-en: Tool to work with series of patches
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).
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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.
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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.
Description-md5: 8eeb0522bc56c3acd93b9e763f3dcd28
Enhances: cdbs, debhelper
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Task: ubuntu-sdk