stow: stow (manage source installs) stow: stow: GNU Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct packages of stow: software and/or data located in separate directories on the stow: filesystem, and makes them appear to be installed in the same place. stow: stow: This is particularly useful for keeping track of system-wide and stow: per-user installations of software built from source, but can also stow: facilitate a more controlled approach to management of configuration stow: files in the user's home directory, especially when coupled with stow: version control systems.