[Gllug] upgrading to new laptop - tricks and tips to copy everything I need accross

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Jan 18, 2008 9:25 AM, Aaron Trevena <aaron.trevena at gmail.com> wrote:
> Now I'm looking at moving to it for my work - that means installing 3
> years worth of obscure libraries used for work, passwords stored in
> mozilla that I've forgotten, ssh keys, rpms and perl modules.
>
> Anybody done this in the past and found any handy tips and tricks -
> like copying saved passwords, cookies, etc in firefox or getting a
> useful list of rpms that can be installed on a newer version of the
> same distro?
>
> I suspect I'll have to copy my bookmarks, cpan bundle and ssh keys,
> and then copy anything I've missed accross as I go.

Backup /etc, all your /home dotfiles (+ files you want to keep), etc.
Your compiled libs might not work ont he new system of course, but you
could try pulling over /usr/local/lib, assuming you kept them separate
from /usr/lib (which you should have)!  Basically though, some of your
software may be misconfigured if you don't have everything where it
should be.  It is not too difficult to salvage what you can and just
reinstall the custom apps that you need...
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Kristian Erik Hermansen
"Know something about everything and everything about something."
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