Unfortunately, I cannot find a guide that tells me how to preserve Firefox’s bookmarks and add-ons; address book, stored e-mails and add-ons for Thunderbird; KDE customizations; printer setup; ALSAMIXER setup… I am assuming that all the customizations will be wiped out when upgrading from 11.4 to 12.1 using the default setup.
Poking around the Internet, it would appear that I need to make a copy of my current (11.4) /home directory. But when I install 12.1, do I have to copy over the entire (11.4) /home directory or just some files? Which ones? What else needs to be done?
On 2011-12-04 08:46, tb75252 wrote:
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> I currently have openSUSE 11.4, 64-bit, KDE desktop environment. I
> would like to upgrade to the 12.1 version.
In principal the upgrade or re-install will not delete it , but it will start tinkering and resetting SOME config files.
Most of the applications run by users will have configuration files in a hidden directory (names begin with a dot) in your home folder, so they will survive the upgrade (mozilla stuff should be OK), just watch out for applications considered “part of KDE”. 12.1 contains some big differences for (KDE based) email in particular.
Printer and system definitions are usually under /etc, so yes, that will get wiped. you could always take a copy of /etc in case you need to refer to old settings, but from clean installs the auto-discovery is usually OK these days.
FYI I just performed the upgrade you are considering (64bit 11.4 to 12.1) but I used the tumbleweed distro-upgrade route - I do NOT recommend it.
I now have very broken KMAIL/KONTACT (see other threads on this forum and KDE forum) and many apps won’t start from the application launcher
Ironically my reason for upgrading was to try to fix some Akonadi/kwallet problems that the KDE’s bugzilla site claimed to have fixed in 4.7.2.
Everything is ten times worse now - ho hum!
Maybe my problems were “upgrade” rather than fresh install related (as upgrading has never ever ever worked for me), but I’m still waiting for the ISO image to finish downloading to be able to find out if the fresh install is any better.
Perhaps you should ask yourself “why do I need to upgrade?” before you go ahead. (If it ain’t broken - don’t fix it!)
On 12/04/2011 07:16 PM, al1ster wrote:
> Perhaps you should ask yourself “why do I need to upgrade?” before you
> go ahead. (If it ain’t broken - don’t fix it!)
+1…so far i’ve seen nothing in 12.1 which i need (when compared to
my well running 11.4) so i wait a while longer hoping the first big
round of bug fixes and updates will solve some of the larger problems in
12.1
certainty, a 11.4 user without the experience in openSUSE to be able to
find the official, openSUSE community produced upgrade pathes is not
likely to have a smile after following any upgrade how-to.
