My dotfiles

I am using GNU Stow to symlink my dotfiles to their correct locations in my $HOME directory.

Installing stow

Ubuntu/Debian

apt install stow

Fedora/RHEL

dnf install stow

Arch

pacman -S stow

MacOS

brew install stow

Cloning this repo

git clone https://github.com/lemonase/dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles/files

Using stow

Installing symlinks

stow --target="$HOME" *

Uninstalling symlinks

stow --delete *

Repairing symlinks

stow --restow *

If there are no errors, everything in that directory should be symlinked. Check by doing a quick ls -al ~/

Troubleshooting

Error: File conflicts

WARNING! stowing git would cause conflicts:
  * existing target is neither a link nor a directory: .gitconfig

Solution

Delete or move file in question

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