Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stow
on Kali Linux.
What is stow
stow is:
GNU Stow is a software installation manager for /usr/local. Using
symbolic links, GNU Stow helps you keep the installations separate
(/usr/local/stow/emacs vs. /usr/local/stow/perl, for example) while
maintaining the illusion that they are all under /usr/local.
There are three methods to install stow
on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install stow Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install stow
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stow
Install stow Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stow
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stow
Install stow Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install stow
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stow
How To Uninstall stow on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the stow
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stow
Uninstall stow And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stow
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stow
Remove stow Configurations and Data
To remove stow
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stow
Remove stow configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stow
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stow
Dependencies
stow have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stow
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.