Sorry, for asking such a probably very trivial question but I am stuck and so far I am unable to find an answer.
I want to apply a patch to a free cpp project I am helping out with as a designer. Somebody provided a .patch file and I expected it would be easy to just do: "$ patch < file.patch" if I am in the right folder on Debian stable. But I get "bash: patch: command not found" as a result and I can't find "patch" as a package in Debian either. So far I was unable to find any hint how I could actually use the patch command on Debian. Everywhere it just seems to be assumed that the patch command works out of the box. Obviously I am missing something here. Can anyone enlighten me?