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stow - Manages installation process

Manages the installation process by keeping packages separate while making them appear to be installed in the same place. Stow doesn't store an extra state between runs, so there's no danger of mangling directories when file hierarchies don't match the database. Also, stow will never delete any files, directories, or links that appear in a stow directory, so it is always possible to rebuild the target tree.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.gnu.org/software/stow/stow.html
Source tarballhttp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/stow/stow-1.3.3.tar.gz
Version 1.3.3 (stable) released on 2002-01-07
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is a GNU package.

Documentation
User manual available from http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual.html
Support contacts

Announce List<info-stow@gnu.org> http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group_id=978
Help List<help-stow@gnu.org> http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group_id=978
Developer List<stow-devel@gnu.org> http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group_id=978
Bug Listbug-stow@gnu.org> http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group_id=978

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Source repository:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsrott/stow http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group_id=978
Interfacescommand line
Source languagesPerl
Use requirementsPerl

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-12-20
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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