GNU Stow

GNU Stow is a program for managing the installation of software packages, keeping them separate (/usr/local/stow/emacs vs. /usr/local/stow/perl, for example) while making them appear to be installed in the same place (/usr/local). Stow is a Perl script which should run correctly under Perl 5.005 and above. You must install Perl before running Stow. Stow was inspired by Carnegie Mellon's Depot program, but is substantially simpler.

Tags Systems Administration
Licenses GPL
Operating Systems POSIX
Implementation Perl

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  • Rrelease-mid
  •  07 Jan 2002 12:39
  • Rrelease-after

Changes: Initially empty directories are not removed anymore. Stow now only warns the user if a directory is unreadable during unstowing. Various other bugfixes were made.

  • Rrelease-mid
  •  30 Jan 2001 06:12
  • Rrelease-after

    Changes: First announcement.

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