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.
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.