sunrat Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Do you ever install from source or use make/makeinstall or its kindred? Using Stow you can manage these installs to make it easy to remove them later if you wish. Stow is most likely already available in your distro's repo. https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-use-gnu-stow-to-manage-programs-installed-from-source-and-dotfiles https://www.linux.com/news/get-rid-stowaway-packages-gnu-stow 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Neat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted July 8, 2018 Share Posted July 8, 2018 I had a look at STOW but it seemed pretty complicated to set up and run, at least it seemed that way to me. Neat idea though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted July 8, 2018 Author Share Posted July 8, 2018 I had a look at STOW but it seemed pretty complicated to set up and run, at least it seemed that way to me. Neat idea though. I thought it sounded pretty simple, mainly just set a different directory to install in. Well, simpler than writing systemd timers and working out regexes for awk and sed which is the last things I did before reading about Stow. I've only ever built a handful of things from source so it may be some time before I actually try it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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