Re: [Help-stow] Stow conflict help

[Dominic Steinitz]

Hi Adam,

Many thanks for this. I can see now that freetype was already installed by brew 
hence the messages from stow.

Dominic.

On 2 Jan 2013, at 12:34, Adam Spiers <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Dominic,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Dominic Steinitz <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am getting the following warnings / errors. It seems to suggest I need a 
>> user called stow and then giving this user ownership of e.g. 
>> /usr/local/bin/freetype-config. I couldn't find any mention of having to 
>> create a user called stow in the docs or when I searched the Internet. Any 
>> help would be much appreciated.
> 
> No, you are misreading the errors.  It's nothing to do with ownership
> in the UNIX file permissions sense.  Read the "Ownership" section of
> the manual:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual/html_node/Installing-Packages.html#Ownership
> 
>> CONFLICT when stowing freetype-2.4.8: existing target is not owned by stow: 
>> bin/freetype-config
> 
> This means that there is already a file freetype-config in the bin/
> subdirectory of your target directory, but it is not a symlink to
> within a stow package directory - in other words it was put there by
> something other than the Stow program. In this sense, it is not owned
> by the Stow *program*, therefore Stow cannot safely remove it and stow
> the new version in its place.  So you should figure out why these
> files already exist in the target directory, and if appropriate,
> remove them before executing the stow command.
> 
> You should also read the docs for the --adopt option in case that is of use.
> 
> Cheers,
> Adam