So its time to take the full step and move over to the new laptop. I have made copies off all my data and all my music and so on so its time to start the full move over. I had to roads to head down on now.
- Move the old directory into place and trie to get KDE4 to work with that
- Or to copy data over and get one application after another to work
And I think that the second one was the best way. The old system i was running and moving from was an Kbuntu 7.04 so there was 2 versions to upgrade over and I was not shure that the upgrade system and all would cope with that, and I realy did not have much that I already had running on the new system so I decided to get application after application over.
There is not that many ones that is absolutly crutial, and there are some I would like. Im not shure I can rangorder them so im just going to talk about each one as I go along.
xplanet
As im kind of happy with how my old system worked I whant to have xplanet as the background. This program lets you have a background of, well any planet in the solar system, but I uses it to display a earthglobe centered over stockholm. This way I can see what the time is on different places on the world by just takeing a glance on the desktop. It can also download a cloudmap and ovelay that obver the normal earth picture so you also gets a notion of how the weather will be.
For some reason the xplanet was not installed so I had to install that:
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sudo apt-get install xplanet xplanet-images |
did the trick. Then i had to copy over the config files and the doanloader. The config files and the coordinates is under /usr/share/xplanet. The config file I uses is default.conf and the marker file i uses for the locations I whant is markers/earth. Copy them over and its ok.
The downloader is called doenload_clouds.pl and is also in /usr/share/xplanet. I copied that one over and then installed it with sudo crontab -e. The line to add is:
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0 * * * * /usr/share/xplanet/download_clouds.pl 2>&1 > /dev/null |
The script will only do it of the file is older that 3 hours so thats ok.
Firfox
One other thing t get going is the bookmakrs and evryting with firefox. All the sertings fr firefox is in the .mozilla directory, and I was i bit curious if it would handle the old files right. The new system uses Firefox 3 and the old one had 2.
I moved teh new directory (.mozilla) over to .mozilla-new and copied in my old .mozilla directory. And the started up firefox. And that worked directly – no problems – and I it just worked. All my bookarks, password and even cookies is moved over – very nice and easy.