# Stow

## Table of Contents

- 1 Introduction
- 2 Terminology
- 3 Invoking Stow
- 4 Ignore Lists
  - 4.1 Motivation For Ignore Lists
  - 4.2 Types And Syntax Of Ignore Lists
  - 4.3 Justification For Yet Another Set Of Ignore Files
- 5 Installing Packages
  - 5.1 Tree folding
  - 5.2 Tree unfolding
  - 5.3 Ownership
  - 5.4 Conflicts during installation
- 6 Deleting Packages
  - 6.1 Refolding “foldable” trees.
- 7 Conflicts
  - 7.1 Deferred Operation
- 8 Mixing Operations
- 9 Multiple Stow Directories
- 10 Target Maintenance
- 11 Resource Files
- 12 Compile-time vs Install-time
  - 12.1 Advice on changing compilation and installation parameters
  - 12.2 GNU Emacs
  - 12.3 Other FSF Software
  - 12.4 Cygnus Software
  - 12.5 Perl and Perl 5 Modules
- 13 Bootstrapping
- 14 Reporting Bugs
- 15 Known Bugs
- GNU General Public License
- Index

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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.

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