sudo apt install xstow
Modify ~/.bashrc (or ~/.profile in case of Ubuntu). Add the following content to your ~/.bashrc (or ~/.profile in case of Ubuntu):
export PYTHON_VERSION=python`python -c 'import sys; version=sys.version_info[:3]; print("{0}.{1}".format(*version))'`
export PYTHON3_VERSION=python`python3 -c 'import sys; version=sys.version_info[:3]; print("{0}.{1}".format(*version))'`
export PATH=${HOME}/local/bin:${HOME}/local/sbin:${HOME}/local/usr/bin:${PATH}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${HOME}/local/lib:${HOME}/local/usr/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
export LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${LIBRARY_PATH}
export CPATH=${HOME}/local/include:${HOME}/local/usr/include:${CPATH}
export LDFLAGS="-L${HOME}/local/lib ${LDFLAGS}"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=${HOME}/local/lib/pkgconfig
export CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=${CPATH}
export CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=${LIBRARY_PATH}
If you are not following our recommendation of using Python Virtual Environments or Python project managers instead of PYTHONPATH, then you should also add the following:
export PYTHONPATH=${HOME}/local/lib/python/site-packages:${HOME}/local/lib/python3/site-packages:${HOME}/local/lib/${PYTHON_VERSION}/site-packages:${HOME}/local/lib/${PYTHON_VERSION}/dist-packages:${HOME}/local/lib/${PYTHON3_VERSION}/site-packages:${HOME}/local/lib/${PYTHON3_VERSION}/dist-packages:${HOME}/local/lib/python/dist-packages:${HOME}/local/lib/python3/dist-packages:${PYTHONPATH}
After modifing ~/.bashrc please reload the file:
source ~/.bashrc
Finally create the directories:
mkdir -p local/src
mkdir -p local/DIR
The following is an example of how to use
stow. This will fail if you try to follow it.
Download the source code to local/src and then compile it setting the installation directory to stow/name-of-project:
cd local/src
wget http://example.com/example.tar.gz
tar -xzf example.tar.gz
cd example
./configure --prefix=${HOME}/local/stow/example
make -j10
make install
stow it!
cd ~/local/stow
stow example
The last step creates symbolic links one directory up, in effect enabling the program
Now the example project is as useful as if it would be installed in the system directories.
To disable the example:
cd ~/local/stow
stow -D example