How To Install stow on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install stow on Kali Linux.

What is stow

stow is:

GNU Stow is a software installation manager for /usr/local. Using symbolic links, GNU Stow helps you keep the installations separate (/usr/local/stow/emacs vs. /usr/local/stow/perl, for example) while maintaining the illusion that they are all under /usr/local.

There are three methods to install stow on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install stow Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install stow using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install stow

Install stow Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install stow

Install stow Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install stow

How To Uninstall stow on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove stow

Uninstall stow And Its Dependencies

To uninstall stow and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove stow

Remove stow Configurations and Data

To remove stow configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge stow

Remove stow configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove stow configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stow

Dependencies

stow have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• stow website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install stow package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.