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valvet

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2009-06-06

Posts: 147

Moving configurations etc., to another laptop

Hi

So, I got a new job (yay for me) and bossman let me purchase a new laptop aswell. I've spent like half a year customizing my arch system to what I like, and I need to get this to a new installation.

Any ideas on how I would aproach this, while cleaning up a bit - I have alot I don't need since I've been running the same install for a couple of years now.

Pack all dot files in /home
Pack all configuration files in /etc
Save pacman -Q output

And just run through packages installing them one-by-one?

Thanks for any ideas.

Mektub

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From: Lisbon /Portugal

Registered: 2008-01-02

Posts: 647

Re: Moving configurations etc., to another laptop

valvet,

and what system are you installing in your new laptop ?
I suppose it's Linux, but is it Arch ?

Mektub

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Stebalien

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Registered: 2010-04-27

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Re: Moving configurations etc., to another laptop

You should use 'pacman -Qm' instead of just 'pacman -Q' so that dependencies (which are listed with -Q but not -Qm) are not marked as explicitly installed.
If you want everything to be the same, you could just tar up your entire hard drive and then untar it on your new laptop. If you do this, you will have to reset your clock adjustment file and fix a couple of other bugs.

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