[ubuntu-uk] Liferea: transfer settings from 1.4 to 1.6?

[Matt Wheeler]

2009/11/17 mac <ammonius.grammaticus at gmx.co.uk>:
> Just to update this thread and close it, I'm happy to report success.  I
> removed liferea_1.6 with <sudo aptitude remove --purge liferea>, and
> deleted .liferea_1.6 in /home and the liferea folder in ~/.gconf/apps.
>
> I then copied .liferea_1.4 from a backup into /home, and reinstalled
> liferea_1.6 from the repos.  When I started liferea, it hung, with 100%
> cpu usage. (?why.)  I restarted the laptop, restarted liferea, and after
> a disconcertingly long pause, but with the cpu usage not getting above
> 23%, the application eventually started, and had automatically imported
> the 1.4 settings into the new 1.6 folder.  Phew!

Just a quick note, running aptitude remove --purge liferea probably
made no difference whatsoever. That only has an effect on system files
and system configuration (files inside /etc, specifically), which
liferea doesn't have any of anyway.

This is true for any package for a program that has user-specific
settings, apt has nothing to do with them.

> Thanks to Matt.

No problem :-)

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Matt Wheeler
m at funkyHat.org