1. Newbie evaluation. 2. Gutsy>Hardy: request for advice.

[Bas Roufs]

Hello Nils

>> Is there a possibility to reinstall Firefox 2 from the repository after
>> upgrading to Hardy?  If not, how to install it?
>>     
>
> Yes, you can install firefox-2 from the Hardy universe repository after the upgrade. I think in Gutsy the package is named firefox (without "-2") 
> and will result in firefox3 after the upgrade.
>   
At the website of Mozilla, I they wrote that Firefox 2 could become 
unstable if installed in the same folder as Firefox 3. What is the best 
way to deal with this problem:
* installing FF2 in another folder? is that possible? How?
* UNinstalling FF3 first, afterwords INSTALLING FF2 from the universe 
repository?
* any other option?

>   
>> At my desktop, home is still in the same partition as "/". Is there
>> some way to if I would upgrade in that way, would it be possible
>> somehow to safely rearrange the partitioning in a way similar to the
>> suggestion above? Or is it better to do a clean install in case I need
>> to rearrange the partitioning?
>>     
>
> It is probably a question how much experience you have with Linux and how much time you want to offer for the move to the new version. You could 
> try resizing the partitions according to your new needs with qtparted or gparted, before you do the upgrade. I can't tell you how good that works 
> because I never tried that. If you want to finish the move to the new version as fast as possible, a clean install is probably easier.
>   
This answer sounds realistic.

>   
>> "sources.list file": please, explain what it is.
>>     
>
> In the file /etc/apt/sources.list and in files in the directory /etc/apt/sources.list.d you have the configuration for the repositories used for your system.
>   


I found two of such files. Could a back-up copy of them be useful 
somehow in case I choose for a 'clean install'? Have they a function 
similar to 'kubuntu-files': giving an instruction for settings and 
software to be installed? (See attachment, can be opened with KATE.)

Thanks!

Bas.


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