zacktu
April 28th, 2009, 09:14 PM
I've read lots of suggestions about how to do a new installation over an existing installation. Many posts say to 1) have a different /home partition; 2) back up your /home partition 3) tell the new installation not to format the /home partition; 4) do it. I did it.
Another suggestion was to have Synaptic generate a package download script. I did that, but the only line in the script is !/bin/sh. I thought that was going to be a script for synchronizing the packages installed in my previous system with those already installed by 9.04.
As an example, thunderbird wasn't installed. I was hoping that since it was one of my installed packages it would be installed by Update Manager. Have I missed doing something to cause this to happen?
I'm doing all this in a nonessential system that I have set up in order to understand how to do a new installation over an old one, so I have nothing to lose here. I'll be upgrading a system that matters one of these days, so I want to understand how to make everything go smoothly.
Thanks.
Another suggestion was to have Synaptic generate a package download script. I did that, but the only line in the script is !/bin/sh. I thought that was going to be a script for synchronizing the packages installed in my previous system with those already installed by 9.04.
As an example, thunderbird wasn't installed. I was hoping that since it was one of my installed packages it would be installed by Update Manager. Have I missed doing something to cause this to happen?
I'm doing all this in a nonessential system that I have set up in order to understand how to do a new installation over an old one, so I have nothing to lose here. I'll be upgrading a system that matters one of these days, so I want to understand how to make everything go smoothly.
Thanks.