dotfiles/README.md

my dotfiles

Installing the "stow" program:

On Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt install stow

On Fedora/RHEL/CentOS

sudo dnf install stow

On Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S stow

Installing dotfiles

# Create system wide stow directory
$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/stow

# Pull Git Repo
$ mkdir ~/stow
$ cd ~/stow
$ git clone https://git.mysnippetsofcode.com/bobs/dotfiles.git

# Symlink your dot files to make updates easy
$ sudo ln -s ~/stow/dotfiles /usr/local/stow/dotfiles

# Stow for your user and root accounts
# Dry Run (verbose) on Home folder
$ sudo stow -d /usr/local/stow -nv -t ~ dotfiles
# Do it for real!
$ sudo stow -d /usr/local/stow -t ~ dotfiles

# For root user, if desired!
$ sudo stow -d /usr/local/stow -t /root dotfiles