install_stow.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Set up CPAN
# Append the following lines to .bashrc / .profile
# PERL_DIR=$HOME/.perl
# export PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT=$PERL_DIR:${PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT}
# export PATH=$PERL_DIR/bin:$PATH
# export PERL5LIB=$PERL_DIR/lib/perl5
# PERL_MB_OPT="--install_base \"${PERL_DIR}\""; export PERL_MB_OPT;
# PERL_MM_OPT="INSTALL_BASE=${PERL_DIR}"; export PERL_MM_OPT;

cpan
cpan App::cpanminus

cd /tmp
wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/stow/stow-latest.tar.gz
tar xzf stow-latest.tar.gz
cd stow-2.3.1/ 
cpanm Test::Output
# eval `perl -V:siteprefix`
# echo $siteprefix 
# ./configure --prefix=$siteprefix && make
# make clean
./configure --with-pmdir=`PERL5LIB= perl -le 'print $INC[0]'` && make

perl Build.PL
./Build install
which stow