[tde-users] Re: network-manager-tde - dependency issues - update

On Wednesday 02 September 2020 10:09:59 am William Morder via trinity-users wrote: In the quest to help you meet your goals, if you have time, maybe try this? These are my general steps in moving to a new ‘dist’ (or in this case going from jessie or stretch to buster): (hopefully you already have these somewhere, or you can create it off the old drive.) - Tarball existing /home/user dir, copy it to something external {old-home}. - Tarball existing /root dir, copy it to something external {old-root}. - With a User name you’ve never used before {tempuser}, do a clean, wipe the disk install. - Install TDE - Login to {tempuser} - Install all the other packages you need/use. [1] - - Use whatever are the new instructions for the new ‘dist’ (e.g. buster) - Unpack the {old-root} tarball on /root/oldroot. - - Fix root as desired (.bashrc, /root/bin, etc.) - Unpack the {old-home} tarball on /home/{origuser} - Through a GUI tool, create a new User {origuser} [2] !^! You want the system to do all it’s vodoo of creating a new user, which includes adding all the X and other configs. - Login to {origuser} You should have a complete working system, with minimal ‘extra’ setup(s) needed after this. [2] Creating a new user generally does not stomp on application configs, so Konqueror (etc.) should all work exactly the same. Hope that helps! Michael [1] Definitely debatable, but I’ve generally had better luck when everything I use was already installed. My guess is the ‘create new User’ part does some extra ‘stuff’ for those packages? But that’s a complete WAG on my part. [2] - This might take a good bit of time as it’s most likely having to chown everything to the new user:group. - You’ll possibly need to do a manual, mass chown for files outside of /home/{origuser} as well. [3] - System wide things (file associations?) will need fixing though. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting