> Stow installs packages in /usr/local No, it doesn't. I've used stow heaps of times in my home directories on various university machines. The common case is

> Stow installs packages in /usr/local No, it doesn't. I've used stow heaps of times in my home directories on various university machines. The common case is for managing /usr/local, but you can ./configure --prefix=$HOME && make && make install prefix=$HOME/stow/foo-3.14 && cd $HOME/stow && stow foo-3.14 without trouble.