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This manual describes GNU Stow 2.3.1 (28 July 2019), a symlink farm manager which takes distinct sets of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem, and makes them appear to be installed in a single directory tree.
• Introduction: | Description of Stow. | |
• Terminology: | Terms used by this manual. | |
• Invoking Stow: | Option summary. | |
• Ignore Lists: | Controlling what gets stowed. | |
• Installing Packages: | Using Stow to install. | |
• Deleting Packages: | Using Stow to uninstall. | |
• Conflicts: | When Stow can’t stow. | |
• Mixing Operations: | Multiple actions per invocation. | |
• Multiple Stow Directories: | Further segregating software. | |
• Target Maintenance: | Cleaning up mistakes. | |
• Resource Files: | Setting default command line options. | |
• Compile-time vs Install-time: | Faking out ‘make install’. | |
• Bootstrapping: | When stow and perl are not yet stowed. | |
• Reporting Bugs: | How, what, where, and when to report. | |
• Known Bugs: | Don’t report any of these. | |
• GNU General Public License: | Copying terms. | |
• Index: | Index of concepts. | |
— The Detailed Node Listing — Ignore Lists | ||
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• Motivation For Ignore Lists: | ||
• Types And Syntax Of Ignore Lists: | ||
• Justification For Yet Another Set Of Ignore Files: | ||
Advice on changing compilation and installation parameters | ||
• GNU Emacs: | ||
• Other FSF Software: | ||
• Cygnus Software: | ||
• Perl and Perl 5 Modules: | ||
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