Fedora Installation :: Migrating Away From Gnome
Apr 13, 2011
I've been looking at Gnome 3 and the Gnome Shell and I don't like what I see. The Gnome devs are taking things in a direction I don't like, giving us new ways to do things that don't interest me and making them mandatory. AFAICT, in the long run there's no real way to configure things to work the way I've been doing things for the last fifteen years. This is not a rant, not (mostly) a complaint, merely an observation. Clearly, I'm not part of their target demographic and I doubt that I'd want to be under the circumstances.
To me, that means it's time for me to move on and try something different. After some careful research, I've migrated my laptop to XFCE and am very happy with it. Now, I'm about to do the same to my desktop. This leaves me with an interesting question: what's the best way to remove Gnome from my two machines without removing any support needed for various programs that I'm accustomed to using and expect to continue using?
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Mar 10, 2011
I have upgraded to 6gb of ram on my lenovo x201. Unfortunately Fedora 14, 32bit version, allow to use only 3gb of ram.
I need now to migrate to 64bit.
What is the best way to backup my actually configuration and restore later?
For example I have my gnome inteface customized, notes in gnote...etc.
I dont want to set up again from scratch.
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Feb 9, 2011
without realising I started thunderbird from a root window, I set it up along with rules and about 2 hours finetuning.
I figured out how to get the icon on the top panel, but that is naturally started as my user gsm.
Is there an easy way of migrating the whole mailbox and subfolders form the root install to the gsm user?
Or is it easier to start from scratch?
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Jan 22, 2010
I am having 2.4.18 kernel on vmware workstation(version 6.0.0 build-45731) in my system, I want migrate to 2.6.28 kernel. Having 2.6.28 source with me. What are the dependencies like gcc, binutils, glibc etc.
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May 10, 2010
I am considering moving to Ubuntu 10.04. Is there any way of migrating the programs and games that I have downloaded in Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu 10.04? I have also downloaded the Kubuntu KDE desktop.
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Apr 15, 2011
I have 3 SATA hard drives, one 500GB NTFS with Windows, one 320GB With Linux (one partition)and one newly purchased 1TB. The 500GB has Windows, which I use to LAN and do graphic stuff while I set up Wine. Its got 1GB free space. The 320 I found in my garage, and is on it last leg, often not showing as boot or displaying as "Bzbzbzbzbzbzbzbzbzb bzbzbzbzb" (No lies). As I was low on space already, I decided to by a 1TB, move Ubuntu across and go from there. How would I copy my system from one HDD to the other, and also add a 500GB NTFS partition. What is the ideal way to set up the partitions, and how big should my swap be? I looked for partitioning guides but they're all really outdated (one suggested a whole 128mb swap).
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Mar 15, 2010
Ive been using Ubuntu 32bit on my work Dell E6400 for nearly a year now with no problems. It is capable of running Ubuntu 64bit and Ive tried out the live CD which seems ok. I have a spare 40GB HDD and a USB caddy so Id like to install Ubuntu 64bit onto that and start working with that as a trial. Once im happy I can get all the usual things I need for my work (like vpnc) working then I'll wipe the main internal HDD and install Ubuntu 64bit.
Apart from backing up my home directory, id like to backup a list of my installed packages as a list of reference so I know what to add into my new install. Is there a "apt" command to do this and list the packages in a way where if I install those packages, I'll not hit any dependancy problems by installing one before another?
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Jul 15, 2011
Is it possible to migrate from Linux Mint 11 to Ubuntu 11.04 without reinstalling the whole system, i.e. as if it was an upgrade from a previous version from Ubuntu. I would like to avoid having to reinstall and reconfigure all the applications I installed in Mint.
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Apr 17, 2009
I have Fedora Core 6 on a IBM X3400 System. It is live ftp server with Static IP.
Now can I move that server to a machine with Pentium D Dual Core, 1 GB DDR2 without having to install anything.
If I do need to install a new version, can I atleast move all System / Network Configuration from old to new server ?
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May 4, 2009
I have an old fedora 4 server, used primarily for ftp access, that I need to migrate to a new machine that will run Centos 5.There are 50 user accounts defined locally on that server: how can I migrate them (user, pass, login options -ie no shell access-, data dir) to the new centos 5 server?
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Jun 19, 2011
We've got to move a LAMP web application from a Red Hat box over to Cent OS. Actually it might wind up being a few applications. Basically are there any scary monsters to watch out for?
I will have some more details tomorrow morning as to exactly what we're moving and off of and on to what. The Cent OS installation I believe is 5ish. Red Hat could be a wildcard. <-It might be Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise or Fedora
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Nov 3, 2010
I recently migrated from SuSE 11.2 to UBUNTU 10.10.I didn't run into any major problems until I tried to boot into XP.The screen just goes blank.My search of other threads revealed error message problems but no blank screen problems.Would it make sense to backup my home files, reinstall XP and then reinstall UBUNTU?
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Jan 30, 2011
I've been using a wubi install of Ubuntu 10.10 for the past few months on my girlfriend's laptop, which has less hardware issues than my more recent laptop. Now that I'm a little more versed in Ubuntu, I'd like to transfer my Wubi install onto an actual partition on my laptop drive for a traditional dual boot.
Is this possible, and if anyone's done this before, would you be able to spare a few minutes and outline the process? I wouldn't know where to start and how to do things since I'm dealing more or less with a file system acting like a partition than an actual one.
I found the steps of migrating a Wubi install to partion via the Wubi Guide, but it seems those are steps for migrating a wubi install to a new partition on the same computer.
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Aug 3, 2009
I recently bought a bigger drive for my laptop which had an encrypted LVM PV on it that I wanted to get rid of for performance reasons. I hit a few snags with the migration and documented it on my blog.
Fancy reading it? Go to my blog post about upgrading harddrive with encrypted LVM.
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Oct 28, 2010
i was using mysql in fedora, but our instructor has told to use oracle 10 g , as i have to submit a project ,please help me out ,whether how to migrate all mysqld database to oracle in the same format and how to run queries in it
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May 23, 2011
I have just updated my Lenny 64 to a squeeze 64, everything is fine exept missing icons in the system menu, unfortunately I couldn't do any screenshot to show you the mess, did anyone experience the same problem and how was it solved.
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Jan 25, 2010
I have a working system running Jaunty. For various reasons I want to move to Karmic, but I don't want to use the "upgrade" feature in the software update manager. I need to swap some hard drives around, so I want to do a fresh installation. My question is, what is the easiest way to "migrate" a user to a fresh installation? On a Mac you can simply run the migration tool and it moves everything into place with relative ease, whether from a backup drive or from one computer to another. Is there any analogous program in Ubuntu? Or is it just so simple that such a program is unnecessary?
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Jun 7, 2011
i started ubuntu from 9.04 now using 10.10 on my laptop. problem started when my laptop motherboard got bad beyond repair, and i had installed ubuntu 10.10 on it along with windows 7 (grub, dual boot). now i have pc running windows 7 and installed ubuntu 10.10 using wubi. i want all the settings of my laptop ubuntu 10.10 (programs installed, themes, softwares other configurations etc) to be transferred to this new ubuntu (installed using wubi) on my pc. how to do that? i have attached my laptop hard disk to my pc and am able to boot that installation on my pc, but now i have decided to remove laptop hard disk and use the same settings on pc hard disk.
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Mar 28, 2010
I want to upgrade from another distro to ubuntu server for a few reasons. The only problem is I have a lot of data that needs to survive. here is how my computer is setup. I've 5 drives on the computer,
A- 10gb drive for OS and swap only, no data
B,C,D,E - 4x 500 GB drives in a LVM. they make up one large drive with xfs and this volume has about 1.2 TB of data. there is nothing fancy on it, no encryption and no software raid of course the little 10gb drive can be formatted no problem, but the LVM needs to be migrated over intact.
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Jul 16, 2010
Install Linux (Fedora) on a laptop, that has XP right now (removing XP completely). Preserve the contents of "My Documents" on the same hdd while installing linux on my laptop (external hdd unavailable) The installed Linux to use full hdd space, contents of "My Documents" to be in /home, and have no leftover partition, that was used while migrating. It would be nice to have a regular hdd scheme after all of that.
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Sep 23, 2009
i am justin i'm 17 years old and new with linux, i use ubuntu and linux mint 7 and a friends of my has a dedicated fedora server. he asked me to intall a desktop manager ( or something that is the same, dont know how to call it ) so he could use remote desktop to acces his server
i have connected the server trought ssh and i am in the terminal. Now i want to install kde or gnome so i and my friend could use the server as a mail en WWW bla bla bla server. and my question is how i need to do that i tryd : yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)" and yum groupinstall "X Window System" but none works i have seen those commands on this forum so i tryd it.
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Jun 6, 2010
Just installed FC13 to HD. After rebooting, install shows icons for home, computer, and trash. That's all, no gnome frame, so I have no access to the terminal or web. Even when I opened home and computer to see if there was a way to get anything from either of those, they were missing the (-,square box, x) to close them! I think one had a drop down menu that listed "close" as an option, but I had to kill the computer to close the other one. Gnome was there when I used the live cd to load to HD. I can go back in with the live cd to get to the terminal, but what do I do when I have it open? I tried to check the md5sum but didn't have any luck with following the instructions linked on the download page.
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Aug 4, 2011
This is my PC
Core i7 870 2.90Ghz
4GB RAM DDR3 - 1600Mhz
GTX460 1GB
HD 1TB Hitachi
So far so good....
Virtual Box Version 4.1
Extension Pack - Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.1.0-73009
Set 3D option with 128MB.
Set 1GB RAM to the Virtual Machine.
Correcttly instaled the extension pack.
No errors with installed guest addon from Virtual Box
No errors with kernel headers
Reboot and nothing happens, Gnome 3 just don't appear. What else can I try, I have already installed on hardware but happened the same no Gnome 3, I decided to test better with
software with virtual machines but no success until now.
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Mar 2, 2009
I want to install Fedora with both KDE and GNOME desktops. Please let me know whether there is any distribution available for installing both.
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May 22, 2009
I am trying to switch desktops managers from GNOME to KDE followed the wiki page but can't seem to get it right as in my /etc/sysconfig folder there is no desktop file to be modified to tell my system to use KDE at startup. download a new F10/KDE live cd today and try the install that way if I get the chance to do that. But if I can't...
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Jun 3, 2009
I just installed Fedora Core 9 on a older PC (Compaq Presario that dual boots Windows xp). It had a much older Fedora on it and I overwrote it. I did a basic install using 3 of the 6 discs and watched it say it installed Gnome. I remember from a few years back that Fedora just boots to the prompt after installation unless you *tell* it to boot to a gui environment.
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Nov 19, 2009
I tried to install F12 DVD (Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso). The installation process showed it installed 200 packages and finished correctly. After reboot, it only gives me a command prompt. How do I install gnome or kde from the command prompt?
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Nov 27, 2009
I have a problem when I power on my laptop (EliteBook 8530p) with fedora core 12 live cd in my optical drive. It simply will not start. The two numlock and capslock leds are flashing regularly and the screen is either blank, or it just freezes at the main menu (from which I can enter bios, etc). A HP assistant suggested that I should update my bios, but it's the same. I have also tried to install Mandriva 2010, which the laptop reads and boots up to a certain point when the screen goes blank, with the exception of a scroll flickering at the upper-left corner of the screen. Windows 7, FC 11, Ubuntu have been working till now, so I am inclined to believe that there's no problem with those particular cds (especially given the fact that I have written 3 or 4 with each linux image - fedora and mandriva).
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Feb 3, 2010
I had a request from one of my colleague that he would like to try my Fedora 12 installation which was set up recently. However, he said he would like to start with the KDE Desktop while my normal login uses the Gnome. Is it possible to have different desktops for different users (well I believe so)? If yes, I would be appreciated if some one will provide me guidance in doing so as I am quite new to Linux.
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Jan 4, 2010
I have a clean installation of Fedora 10 + GNOME on a desktop with a Crystal sound card. The card seems correctly detected according to lsmod:
Code: $ lsmod | grep snd
snd_cs4236 18188 0
snd_opl3_lib 12800 1 snd_cs4236
[code]....
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