How To Install stow-doc on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install stow-doc on CentOS 7. stow-doc is Documentation for Stow

Introduction

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

What is stow-doc

This package contains the documentation for GNU Stow.

We can use yum or dnf to install stow-doc on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install stow-doc.

Install stow-doc 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-doc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install stow-doc

Install stow-doc 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-doc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install stow-doc

How To Uninstall stow-doc on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the stow-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove stow-doc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install stow-doc on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.