GNU Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct packages of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem, and makes them appear to be installed in the same place. For example, /usr/local/bin could contain symlinks to files within /usr/local/stow/emacs/bin, /usr/local/stow/perl/bin etc., and likewise recursively for any other subdirectories such as .../share, .../man, and so on.
This is particularly useful for keeping track of system-wide and per-user installations of software built from source, but can also facilitate a more controlled approach to management of configuration files in the user's home directory, especially when coupled with version control systems.
Stow is implemented as a combination of a Perl script providing a CLI interface, and a backend Perl module which does most of the work.
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| 2.3.1-bp156.3.1 info | GA Release | 2023-07-22 | 15 SP6 |
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| 2.3.1-bp155.2.8 info | GA Release | 2023-05-17 | 15 SP5 |
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| 2.3.1-bp154.1.13 info | GA Release | 2022-05-09 | 15 SP4 |
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| 2.2.2-bp153.1.11 info | GA Release | 2021-02-26 | 15 SP3 |
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| 2.2.2-bp152.3.13 info | GA Release | 2020-04-16 | 15 SP2 |
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| 2.2.2-bp151.3.1 info | GA Release | 2019-07-18 | 15 SP1 |
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| 2.2.2-bp151.2.10 info | GA Release | 2019-05-18 | 15 SP1 |
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| 2.2.2-bp150.2.4 info | GA Release | 2018-07-30 | 15 |
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