Rustow is GNU Stow rewritten in Rust. While writing Rustow, GNU Stow only used as a starting idea not as an objective; so expect some different behavior and/or missing features. Rustow also has some additional features over GNU Stow. Check man page for more details.

Installation

Arch Linux

Rustow is available in AUR as rustow-git. Use your favorite AUR Helper to install. Examples:

• Aura

$ aura -A rustow-git

• Yay

$ yay -S rustow-git

Others

Rustow is not in any official repository (as far as I know). So, you should build it from source.

1. Clone this repository:

$ git clone https://gitlab.com/Erenoit/rustow.git

2. Compile:

$ cargo build --release

3. Move executable (target/release/rustow) somewhere in your $PATH:

$ install -Dm755 target/release/rustow /usr/bin/rustow
$ install -Dm644 LICENSE /usr/share/licenses/rustow/LICENSE
$ install -Dm644 rustow.1 /usr/share/man/man1/rustow.1

Dependencies

It only depends on libc at runtime to be able to communicate with the OS.

Also, it depends on cargo to be built.