I installed Tumbleweed on a new notebook and configured all my software to reflect my desktop boxes which run openSUSE 13.2 64bit KDE. But now I find the constant updating very time consuming on a slow connection. I would like to install 13.2 64bit KDE from a DVD but not lose all the configuration files. Is there a way of doing this?
Thanks in advance.
Do you mean user configuration files or the system’s configuration?
The former ones are no problem if you have a separate /home (as is the default), you can just do a fresh install without formatting /home (should be suggested automatically by the installer).
If you do that, all system config files would get lost though, so if you want to keep them, back them up and copy them back afterwards.
Or rather try an “Upgrade” (choose that in the boot menu) to 13.2 instead of a fresh installation.
You could also do a “Online Downgrade”, by removing the Tumbleweed repos, adding the 13.2 ones, and running “zypper dup”.
Should work fine, except for some hiccups maybe that should be solvable easily.
If you get conflicts or experience issues afterwards, ask if in doubt.
Are you using plasma 5? If so I’m not sure how easy this is but otherwise you can keep all your desktop settings by simply not formatting your /home partition during installation. You will then have kde how you want it plus apps like Firefox will also be as you left them. However any extra apps you installed post installation will need to be re-installed. I would still play safe and do a back up though; not forgetting those hidden directories in your /home.
In theory I believe you could just point yast to 13.2 repos and it will downgrade but I’m not sure on this. A Tumbleweed user may be better to advise on this. This way, if it is possible, all your apps would still be there.
I think Wolfi323 has kind of clarified that for you and me 
Should not be a big problem, as Plasma5 is already included in 13.2 too…
It won’t be installed by default if you do a fresh install though, you’d have to select the package “plasma5-session” (or the Plasma5 pattern) manually.
If you downgrade, Plasma5 will just be downgraded too… (well, not really downgraded, as 13.2 has 5.2.2 as well, via the update repo at least)
Thanks for the speedy solution wolfi323.
I finally tried the above method. The process stopped at…
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( 578/1945) Installing: kernel-desktop-3.16.7-21.1 ..............<100%>|]
…everything locked up and I had to switch the power off. I will now go to a fresh install from USB (no DVD drive) which is a tedious process by comparison due to extra third party software.
On 2015-05-02 15:36, ionmich wrote:
> …everything locked up and I had to switch the power off. I will now
> go to a fresh install from USB (no DVD drive) which is a tedious process
> by comparison due to extra third party software.
You can attempt repair by booting from USB and choose upgrade. The USB
has to contain the big DVD image or the netinstall image.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))