How To Install stow on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stow on CentOS 8.
What is 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). Software to ease the keeping track of software built from source, making it easy to install, delete, move etc.
We can use yum or dnf to install stow on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install stow.
Install stow on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install stow using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install stow
Install stow on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install stow using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install stow
How To Uninstall stow on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the stow package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove stow
stow Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/chkstow
/usr/bin/stow
/usr/share/doc/stow
/usr/share/doc/stow/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/stow/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/stow/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/stow/README.md
/usr/share/doc/stow/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/stow/TODO
/usr/share/info/stow.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/stow
/usr/share/licenses/stow/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/stow.8.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Stow
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Stow.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Stow/Util.pm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stow on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.