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!
duke nukem forever
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 |.
Nobody mentioned it yet, but my current no hassle solution is to:
just physically move the nvme from one computer to the other
Or if you want to use the new drive, clone your drive to the new one(using clonezilla for example)
That’s all I’ve done, or imaged it to a new drive. Linux is glorious for portability.
