GNU 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).
You can read the Stow manual (52k characters) on-line.
Stow is a Perl script which should run correctly under Perl 5.005 and above. For more information about Perl, see http://www.perl.com/perl/.
Stow was inspired by Carnegie Mellon's Depot program, but is substantially
simpler. Stow will never delete any files, directories, or links that appear in a Stow directory (e.g.,
/usr/local/stow/emacs), so it's always possible to rebuild the target
tree (e.g., /usr/local). Stow is free software, licensed under the
GNU General Public License.
Please mail questions and comments to help-stow@gnu.org, and bug reports to bug-stow@gnu.org. For information regarding Stow development, check out our Savannah page.
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Copyright (C) 1996 Bob Glickstein
Copyright (C) 2001 Guillaume Morin
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