Modern Linux distributions have great repositories of software available, so much so that many people never need to go looking elsewhere to meet their needs. Sometimes however you find a piece of software that, for whatever reason, you install from source. This is fine, but it also means that this package is now your responsibility to manage. Updates, dependencies, recompiling, etc. all become your responsibility instead of being automagically handled by your distribution's package manager. "stow" is a tool to help with that.
Note: OpenSUSE users simply type the following from a root command prompt to install stow.
# zypper in stow
That's it.
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-use-gnu-stow-to-manage-programs-installed-from-source-and-dotfiles
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