Lo, on Sunday, April 8, Mark Devin did write: > How do I use 'stow'?
apt-get install stow then check the info page. In brief: if you've got several packages you want to install into, say, /usr/local/{bin,lib,man,info,...}, but you don't want to keep track of which file belongs to which package, use stow. Install each package into, e.g., /usr/local/stow/<package>, then cd /usr/local/stow stow <package> this creates links in /usr/local/{bin,man,lib,...} to the files in the stow/<package> directory. It's quite nice; I'm using it on a Solaris network at work because I don't have a real package manager like dpkg or rpm available. (Yes, I know rpm exists for Solaris, but I don't want to deal with the hassle of configuring it on a system which wasn't built with rpm.) Richard