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?
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?
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!
My life has two eras, pre- and post- awakening to this acronym. Updates will never be the same.
Thanks, I can’t think of it as anything but duke nukem forever now. Your comment made my day.
One correction, it would be
dnf list installed > oldprogs.txt. > instead of |.