How To Install stow on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install stow on Rocky Linux 8. stow is Manage the installation of software packages from source

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install stow on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install stow.

Install stow on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install stow

Install stow on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install stow

How To Uninstall stow on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove stow

stow Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/chkstow
/usr/bin/stow
/usr/share/doc/stow
/usr/share/doc/stow/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/stow/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/stow/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/stow/README.md
/usr/share/doc/stow/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/stow/TODO
/usr/share/info/stow.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/stow
/usr/share/licenses/stow/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/stow.8.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Stow
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Stow.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Stow/Util.pm

References

stow website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install stow on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.