Quilt For Linux

Quilt is an open source, small, fast, easy-to-use and freely downloadable command-line software project that contains a set of scripts for managing a series of patches, simply by monitoring the changes each patch makes.

With Quilt, you will be able to apply patches to programs, remove patches from programs, as well as to refresh them. Patches are the first-class object, because your primary output is patches, not ".h" files or ".c" files.

The Quilt project was inspired by Andrew Morton's patch scripts published on the Linux kernel mailing list a while ago, but has been heavily modified since then http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/.

Various command-line options are available for the Quilt program, which can be viewed at a glance by running the ‘quilt --help’ command in at the command prompt in a terminal emulator app. The usage message will also be displayed, so you can learn how to use the program.

The most important command-line options are --trace for running the command in bash trace mode for internal debugging, and --quiltrc, which allows users to use a custom configuration file instead of the default one located in your Home directory.

The Quilt can be easily installed on any GNU/Linux operating system. Simply download the latest release from Softpedia using the dedicated download section above, save the archive on your Home directory, and extract it using an archive manager utility.

Open the Terminal app, go to the location of the extracted archive files with the ‘cd’ command (e.g. cd /home/softpedia/quilt-0.63), run the ‘./configure && make’ command to configure and compile Quilt, and then run the ‘sudo make install’ command to install it system wide and make it available to all users on your machine.