How To Install stow on CentOS 8

stow is Manage the installation of software packages from source

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.