Upgrading from 6.10 to 7.04

[Nigel Ridley]

Ace wrote:
> On 4/26/07, Michael Bach (gmx) <bach.michael at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Ace,
>>
>> I can confirm what Donn wrote: Make a separate partition for home. The
>> kubuntu installer is actually supporting you with this because it lets
>> you choose certain mount points (amongst them is "/home/") for
>> individual partitions.
>> Here is some more information concerning partition size and a "/home/"
>> partition:
>> http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=399367
> 
> but if do this.. then i would loose all my installed application right?
> 

I did a clean install (my /home is on a separate partition) using the following
to re-install all my other apps, and it worked flawlessly:

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   Kubuntu Tricks - how to generate a list of installed packages and use it to
reinstall packages
(modified from http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=564)

First, let's make the list. You'll be doing all of this in a Terminal Session:

      dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall > Kubuntu-files


Now you've got a list of all of your installed debs in a fairly small file. In my
case, I simply moved this file to a thumb-drive. You could also store it on a
seperate partition or on a disk somewhere. Heck, it's not that big, email it to
your gmail account.

So now you've got this list and all is well, until your Kubuntu install either
dies or has to be reinstalled for some reason. Go ahead and do the base install.

Once you've got Kubuntu back up and running, copy your Kubuntu-files back into
your home directory and do the following:

      sudo apt-get update

      sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

      dpkg --set-selections < Kubuntu-files

Now you've told your system what it needs to install, so let's install it all.

      sudo dselect

This will open up a dselect session. Type 'I' and allow dselect to install of the
the packages listed in your Kubuntu-files document. When it's finished, type 'Q'
and hit the ENTER key to exit dselect.

Now you're a lot closer to where you were before.

geek out.
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Blessings,

Nigel



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