The Great Package Management Experiment

The Great Package Management Experiment

Posted Oct 4, 2003 14:11 UTC (Sat) by csh (guest, #15725)
In reply to: The Great Package Management Experiment by torsten
Parent article: The Great Package Management Experiment

The proper way to use something like stow is this:

% ./configure --prefix=/usr/local

When you install, you use this command:

% make prefix=/usr/local/stow/<package>-<version>

Then when you stow the program, it will have normal paths like you would expect.

If you aren't using a package with the GNU auto stuff, you'll have to do this step manually.

I used to maintain my own system, and a set of patches for different packages to handle the dual nature of a "stowed" install.

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