Re: [LUG] New Laptop question

[Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 6 May 2016, Tom wrote:

> I've just got me a new laptop and set up Xubuntu 16.04 on it.
> I was going to set up my home directory on the old Xubuntu 15.10 on it 
> available to the new one via NFS and then just copy the whole thing over to 
> my new home directory.
> This should be OK shouldnt it? Or will I need to chown?

If the UID (in /etc/passwd) on the new one is the same as the old one then 
you're fine. Use cp -a old new

Or if NFS gives you issues just use rsync (with or without the 
--numeric-ids option)

Actually, I'd just use rsync than bothering to setup nfs unless you 
already have nfs going.

> Also what's the easiest way to get a list of all the packages on the 15.10 
> over to the 16.04 to get it to apt-install them?

On the old one:

  dpkg --get-selections > /path/to/a/file

and on the new one:

  dpkg --set-selections < /path/to/a/file-you-copied-over

then

  apt-get dselect-upgrade

However - personally I'd only use this on debians on the same version - 
you may find it installs the wrong version, or that a package in the new 
OS is named differently or has different dependancies than the old one.

Gordon

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