[QCLUG] Transfer Home from one computer to another

[Mark Riedesel]

I haven't used aptoncd, but a more simpler approach is just to output
the package list from computer-a, copy it to computer-b, and tell apt
to install the packages from the list, assuming you're using a distro
that uses apt such as Debian, Ubuntu, Mepis, and a bazillion others.

** on computer-a **
dpkg --get-selections >my_package_selections_file

copy my_package_selections_file to computer-b

** on computer-b **
dpkg --set-selections <my_package_selections_file
apt-get dselect-upgrade

Mark



On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Arron Lorenz <arronlorenz@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've mentioned this before I think but the Home folder usually just holds
> the data, and conf files and what not. Apt on Cd will help you transfer the
> programs also. I don't mind re downloading what I need but this is nice for
> speed.
>
> http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/
>
> Regards,
> Arron Lorenz
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Mark Riedesel <mriedesel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Copying your home from one machine to another would probably be the
> > simplest, most straightforward way to do it. There's lots of tools for
> > copying stuff from one machine to the other over a network (scp,
> > rsync, etc..)
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Robert Jones <Robert@rm-jones.com> wrote:
> > > Good Morning All, I have two desktop computers. I currently have one
> setup
> > > with Vista (spit spit - sorry, had to get the bad taste out of my mouth)
> and
> > > the other has Ubuntu 8.04. When I have convinced myself that I no longer
> > > need Vista I will set that machine up as Linux and retire the other
> except
> > > for testing things. My question is, will I be able to install Linux on
> my
> > > box that is currently Vista and then transfer my "home" to that box so I
> > > don't have to set everything up again? The other option would be to set
> a
> > > duel boot to Vista now and then just remove vista, clean up Grub and
> resize
> > > the Ubuntu partitions when I no longer need Vista.  Which would be the
> > > better approach?
> > >  Thanks for the Help.
> > >  See Ya All Tonight.
> > >  Bob Jones
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