I just bought a new computer. I’ll install fedora silverblue. Do I just need to copy the home directory? And crontab. What else do I need to move?

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If you’re currently running a rpm distro, you can make it easier on yourself by using the duke nukem forever command to make a list of your installed programs: dnf list installed.

Once that’s outputting an appropriate format, dump it into a text file with | oldprogs.txt.

On your new computer, that same duke nukem forever command can be used to install from the list with something like dnf install << oldprogs.txt

I bet you can come up with a way to stuff all that into a neat little one liner that’ll provide error handling, output teeing and everything else!

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One correction, it would be dnf list installed > oldprogs.txt. > instead of |.

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Thanks, I can’t think of it as anything but duke nukem forever now. Your comment made my day.

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duke nukem forever

My life has two eras, pre- and post- awakening to this acronym. Updates will never be the same.

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