How To Install stow on CentOS 7
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.
After updating yum database, We can install stow
using yum
by running the following command:
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.
After updating yum database, We can install stow
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall stow on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the stow
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stow
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.