Re: moving to a new laptop
Thanks to everyone who replied to my question!!
I'll let you know when I run into some more problems :)
Thanks,
Philipp
Andrew McMillan wrote:
>
> Philipp Bliedung wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm going to move to a new laptop pretty soon. My question:
> > Can I simply "move" all the software to the new one? (Well, except for
> > the XConfig and other hardware stuff like sound, 3D, etc...)
> > My biggest concern is that I have to install all the packages again that
> > are on my laptop rigth now. What about programs that I compiled myself -
> > do I have to compile them again?
> > I have a lot of packages from woody and sid and I really don't feel like
> > getting them again (I only have potato stuff on CD) - I really want to
> > avoid that, especially because it took me a long time to configure
> > everything.
> >
> > Thanks for you help!
>
> In the past I have found it easier to use dpkg --get-selections and dpkg
> --set-selections after installing a base set of things on my new laptop.
>
> After that I copy personal stuff across and put it into the appropriate locations.
> I usually take the opportunity to try and reorganise things a bit more sensibly than
> last time too :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew.
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