How To Install stow on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stow on AlmaLinux 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 AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install stow.
Install stow on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install stow using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install stow
Install stow on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
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 AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the stow package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove stow
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stow on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.