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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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