Just to make sure: this works really fine in archlinux, but I don't know if
Ubuntu package manager will get distracted by that, so if you really want to
try this solution: BACKUP your system :-)
Don't blame the Arch-guy! :D
Andi
On Thursday 11 December 2008 22:31:30 Andi Clemens wrote:
> Well in the case of old / missing libraries you need to build even more
> packages, because they will not be available on the new system and the
> digikam package installation will fail (or at least digikam will not
> start).
>
> You could be risky and analyze what files have been copied while compiling
> digikam / libs / kipi etc.
> Rsync / copy those files to the new machine :-)
> Actually this should work quite easy: use rsync to copy the whole KDE
> folder to the other machine (do a backup first of course). I know that I
> managed this to work on archlinux as I moved to another laptop, but I don't
> know if Ubuntu is happy with this solution...
>
> Andi
>
> On Thursday 11 December 2008 22:24:32 Chris G wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:34:43PM +0100, Andi Clemens wrote:
> > > On Thursday 11 December 2008 21:27:11 Chris G wrote:
> > > > I want to copy my slightly modified version of digikam 0.9.5 beta to
> > > > another machine. Is there any way to do this except by rebuilding
> > > > the whole thing again on the other machine? The machine is running
> > > > the same Linux distribution (xubuntu 8.10).
> > >
> > > You can build an Ubuntu package out of the source (I do this here for
> > > archlinux) and install the package on the other machine.
> > > There should be enough information on how to do this at
> > > ubuntuforums.org.
> > >
> > > But I'm sure it will be faster (if you never built a package yourself)
> > > if you just compile on the other machine again.
> >
> > OK, I thought as much! :-(
> >
> > It's just that it was a fair amount of hassle getting all the required
> > updated libraries for 0.9.5 beta before it would compile.
>
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