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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Can I re-install Ubuntu (with a new version) without,
disturbing any existing files (Graeme Gemmill)
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Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 17:21:40 +0100
From: Graeme Gemmill
To: dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Dorset] Can I re-install Ubuntu (with a new version)
without, disturbing any existing files
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On 28/05/14 13:00, dorset-requ...@mailman.lug.org.uk wrote:
Re: Can I re-install Ubuntu (with a new version) without
disturbing any existing files
For many years, across different distros and releases of distros, I have
kept no personal data (Documents, Pictures etc) in /home. I created a
separate partition containing all my data, including .mozilla and
.thunderbird, and created symlinks from /home. This means that /home
only contains all those . and . objects that vary from
release to release, so I don't care that it is created on each new install.
I recommend that approach.
Graeme
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I didn't do the above but did a complete copy of /home as well as an
incremental backup.
(Graeme, can you enforce your technique on a multi-user system?)
In fact, the ISO of 14.04 has a standard option of upgrading from
13.10. I selected that and it worked well. That's in contrast to the
failures I was getting with the upgrade-in-place option.
My home files seem to be as before. An oddity is the GRUB situation.
The existing configuration was ignored and GRUB was re-initialised.
That meant that I did the usual procedure: I edited /etc/default/grub,
saved it and immediately rebooted. I then wondered why there was no
change and eventually remembered to run update-grub!
(BTW, I've forgotten how to remove the memtest entries from the menu.
Any suggestions?)
The "upgrade" promised to re-install all my existing applications but
then when it came to actually doing it , it told me it couldn't do one
and gave up. The missing ones I've identified are just Terminator,
qBittorrent, and Kate - nothing complicated.
Thanks,
John
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