How To Install stow on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install stow on CentOS 7. stow is Manage the installation of software packages from source

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install stow on CentOS 7.

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 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install stow.

Install stow on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install stow using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install stow

Install stow on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install stow using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install stow

How To Uninstall stow on CentOS 7

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 CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.