Questions tagged [stow]
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.
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GNU Stow: ERROR: Slashes are not permitted in package names
Got the error stow: ERROR: slashes are not permited in package names when using stow --simulate -v --target=/path/to/target/tree /path/to/source/tree
What wrong I'm doing??
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stow: No packages to stow or unstow
The following command works:
% pwd
/home/ismail/.dotfiles/.common-dotfiles
% stow --target=/home/ismail/.dotfiles/test .
But the following command does not work:
stow --target=/home/ismail/.dotfiles/...
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Opposite of `--adopt` option for GNU Stow?
I'm using GNU Stow to manage my dotfiles as per this guide. This works well for cases where there is no pre-existing dotfile on the machine. E.g. if there is no file ~/.config/foo.cfg then the ...
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Non-stowed files in stow directory and git
I Stowed a couple of files which were in a folder. This folder is a config folder and has other temp or system specific files which I don't want in my Git backed Stow backup.
What is the best way to ...
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GNU Stow - is there any way to add file extensions to .stow-global-ignore or .stow-local-ignore files?
I want stow to ignore certain files, like *.bak and *.tmp, but I cannot seem to be able to add wildcards and get them to work.
I have tried:
*.bak
*.tmp
\*.bak
\*.tmp
I suppose wildcards are not ...
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Can I use an extra 'etc' folder inside /usr in linux?
I'm experimenting with linux from scratch. I'm using stow to install extra packages into /usr/local/stow/. I'm using the command stow <package dir> -t /usr which symlinks everythin to /usr/bin, /...
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Stow to destination root /: existing target is not owned by stow
I'm trying to stow a package to the "root" /
# cd ~/.dotfiles
# sudo stow -t / kraken
WARNING! stowing kraken would cause conflicts:
* existing target is not owned by stow: lib
All ...
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ignore directories with stow
I am having problem in using stow correctly. The scrip I use to install all my stow's is :
cd ~/Utility/configs
for file in *; do
# Only run Stow on the directories in the dotfiles folder and not ...
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How to sync files and symbolic links between original dir and symbolic directory using GNU stow?
For instance, I put symbolic links into ~/.local/bin/ which point to real executable files in ~/Dotfiles.d/local/.local/bin/.
I use the following instructions to do that:
$ cd ~/Dotfiles.d/
$ stow -...
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How to organize installed programs in $HOME for shell to search for them when running them? [closed]
I have written or downloaded some programs ( bash scripts, python scripts, java programs, C programs) and placed them under /home/t/program_files/. For each program, I create a directory under the ...
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Stow - no configure script
In the program GNU Stow, the symlink farm manager/package manager/whatever you want to call it, you can run the following commands to install a package to /usr/local:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
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dotfiles: can/should(?) gnu stow make hard links, so I can still use xfce settings gui programs
I'm trying to manage my dotfiles under version control. My dotfiles repos contains a xfce-base folder, this folder contains the .config/xfce4/.../xy-setting.xml stuff. I can stow, or better, symlink ...
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Stow doesn't use the "ignore" option given in the rc file
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--ignore=<regex> lines that I put in my .stowrc does not work. When running Stow, it says "Loading defaults from .stowrc", yet it has no effect. But passing the --ignore=<regex> ...
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Can GNU Stow use a stow directory that is a symbolic link?
Consider this script.
#! /usr/bin/env bash
mkdir -p target
mkdir -p mydir/package/
touch mydir/package/file
ln --symbolic mydir mylink
file mylink
stow --verbose --dir=./mylink --target=./target ...
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GNU stow linking all files instead of only binary
What must I do to have stow only linking the binaries (and maybe the man pages) correctly?
I want to use GNU stow to manage local installs on my machine. However, stow does not simply symlinks the ...
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GNU Stow: How to stow only selected files/folders?
Let's assume the following structure of a folder called scripts.
├── scripts
│ └── .scripts
│ ├── script1
│ ├── script2
│ └── script3
│ └── .config
│ ├── script4
│ ├─...
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Differences between XStow and Stow
According to the official XStow news, the package was last updated on 2010-07-22.
On the other hand, the GNU Stow git repository (mantained by Adam Spiers) had activity just 10 days ago, and the ...
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Dealing with GNU Stow conflicts
What is the recommended way of dealing with GNU Stow conflicts?
I tried to stow readline-6.2 and got the following warning:
> stow readline-6.2
Loading defaults from /home/josh/.stowrc
WARNING! ...
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Path errors when using GNU Stow
I am trying to get started with GNU Stow. I have defined STOW_DIR to point to a personal path:
STOW_DIR=/some/path
I then build a package of my choice from the tarball and install it under STOW_DIR. ...
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Pre-specifying a default GNU Stow target-directory
TLDR: Can I pre-define a stow folder other than /usr/local with GNU Stow?
I do not have admin privileges on the machine I use for work, and I was told that I could use GNU Stow to manage my ...
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