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how to move to a new computer? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just bought a new computer. I'll install fedora silverblue. Do I just need to copy the home directory? And crontab. What else do I need to move?

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago (5 children)

If you’re currently running a rpm distro, you can make it easier on yourself by using the duke nukem forever command to make a list of your installed programs: dnf list installed.

Once that’s outputting an appropriate format, dump it into a text file with | oldprogs.txt.

On your new computer, that same duke nukem forever command can be used to install from the list with something like dnf install << oldprogs.txt

I bet you can come up with a way to stuff all that into a neat little one liner that’ll provide error handling, output teeing and everything else!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

duke nukem forever

My life has two eras, pre- and post- awakening to this acronym. Updates will never be the same.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, I can't think of it as anything but duke nukem forever now. Your comment made my day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It's more appealing than the Did Not Finish command. That's to thematically close to flaming crashes for my liking.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Well that doesnt work for RPM distros, but just for dnf distros XD

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)

One correction, it would be dnf list installed > oldprogs.txt. > instead of |.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Ty, it’s early yet…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nice one.

On silverblue, everything is installed within a distrobox. I should back that up and make sure it's in my home folder.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

No not everything is installed in a Distrobox.

the core system contains base stuff
you can layer needed apps that need to be on the base system
GUI apps are preferred as Flatpaks
some random stuff may be in a Toolbox or Distrobox
you can use pip, cargo and others on the base OS to install binaries there.