I forgot to say that both have the same OS, sorry! Thank you very much.
Luigi Zanotti
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Prof. Luigi Ernesto Zanotti
Physics Department "G. Occhialini"
University of Milano Bicocca
Piazza della Scienza 3. 20126 Milano Italy
Tel. +39 02 6448 2460
E-Mail: luigi.zano...@mib.infn.it
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Il giorno 6 Aug 2014, alle ore 22:04, Alexander Hansen
<alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> On 8/6/14, 11:17 AM, Luigi Ernesto Zanotti wrote:
>> I have a new Mac Air on which I would have a copy of my fink
>> installation on another Mac, without reinstalling.
>> How sould I proceed?
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Luigi Zanotti
>
> If they're using the same major version of OS X:
>
> 1) copy the /sw and /Applications/Fink folders over to the new machine.
> 2) Copy any /Library/StartupItems/daemonic-* folders and contents over to the
> new machine so that any Fink-installed services that should run at system
> start will run.
> 3) Use "fink selfupdate" on the new machine to generate the 'fink-bld' user.
> 4) Use "fink list -it passwd" to check whether you have any packages that
> install their own users. If so, then you'll want to reinstall them via "fink
> reinstall <list of packages>".
> 5) Reboot if you put anything in /Library/StartupItems in step 2. (Or you
> can run the corresponding daemons manually).
>
> If they're not on the same OS X version you might be able to follow the above
> instructions and have stuff work if you're going from an older OS X to a
> newer one, but in that case it's possible that you won't be able to do any
> package updates.
>
> --
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
> Fink User Liaison
> My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
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