Thank you for a very nice (and succinct) list of suggestions. I am going to hold off on Jaunty until May or June to see what rough edges get knocked off. I also pray for Israel. <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Nigel Ridley <<a href="mailto:nigel@prayingforisrael.net">nigel@prayingforisrael.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I just did a clean install of Jaunty Beta (9.04). In the process I managed to do a few things that I would have done differently had I thought about it more. So here are some tips to ease your fresh install: 1. When making backups to CD/DVD choose the option to save as a 'backup' - it preserves your file permissions (you will need them after the install). 2. After burning your backup CD/DVD's -- check them! Although I chose the 'copy hidden files' option, K3b didn't actually include them. I had to add them by dragging and dropping from Konqueror. 3. If you did burn your backup CD/DVD's without using the 'backup' option and you now find that all your files are read only -- just do a: 'find [YOURDIR] -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;' (without the quotes and replacing [YOURDIR] with the directory that you want to change the permissions on). This will recursively change the permissions on all files below the parent directory as rw r r (which is to give the owner read/write permissions and everybody else just read permissions). 4. Make sure that you have enabled all the necessary apt sources (repositories) before giving apt a list of all the apps that you had installed previously ('dpkg --get-selections > list-of-installed-packages'). 5. Take some time to get used to KDE 4.2 if you are moving from 3.x as I did. It isn't so bad - just needs some time to adjust to new ways of doing things..... 6. Don't rush it! I spent several hours just preparing for the backup -- loads of old files to clear out, old emails (especially those space hoggers with attachments); and watch out for the .thumbnails and the .srtigi dirs -- they can be huge! 7. You are also going to need a few hours of quiet (no wife or kids - they always seem to bother you just when you need to do something really really important) to set up your new system to your liking. Have fun.... Blessings, Nigel P.S. I love my wife and [5] children :-) -- kubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Patricia Wilson Apache Junction, AZ Member NRA, ARRL WB8DXX