Ok, I am posting here because I am new to kubuntu...

[kmcgavran]

Alrighty, I currently have Slackware 10.2 installed with some software on my /usr/local filesystem (it is on a separate disk) that I want to keep..... Based on experience with Slackware and busy schedules, etc., I would like to make the switch to Kubuntu.... Would this be a difficult thing to do? Can I keep the Limewire I already have? How about Google Earth or PGP? (All are on /usr/local) Will I have to do much mucking about to get audio and streaming audio/video and video (mpgs, wmvs, wavs, etc.) to work? (As I did with Slackware) Is there support for my AGP Radeon 9550 graphics card? (the "bare.i" kernel and whatever modules slackware installed seem to work right now...) Will it format or partition my root filesystem?( i.e. would I need to copy user directories to /usr/local temporarily to keep data....?) Thanks for all the help and pardon my ignorance.....
Kenneth McGavran
kmcgavran@y-comm.com

[claydoh]

Re: Ok, I am posting here because I am new to kubuntu...

As to saving your programs themselves, most likely you may run into dependency issues as slackware and Kubuntu/Ubuntu/Debian most likely use slightly different library versions and possibly locations.

You can save /usr/local, and even do a custom partition scheme specifying your drive as that location. You will need to format /, but if you have a separate /usr/local set up during the install, that data won't be touched. It may work, but you shouldn't harm anything in the attempt

It will be much, much easier to save your home dir (or at least the specific bits there) as that is where all your personal data and program settings are kept anyway and reinstall the programs you need . All settings files/folders are hidden, so enable that in Konqueror's View menu. You can easily find what you need there if you only want to save a few important things.

some other useful links for you:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
for video/etc
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/P2PFileShari...%28limewire%29
for some p2p info and alternatives
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver
radeon driver install info

In my opinion, if you got all this stuff working in slackware, (K)Ubuntu will be much easier for you to set up

[kmcgavran]

Re: Ok, I am posting here because I am new to kubuntu...

Hmmm.... Thank you very much for all of this info... Very useful. =P

[kmcgavran]

Re: Ok, I am posting here because I am new to kubuntu...

One other quick question..... What is this "Sudo" thing I keep seeing? Doesn't one "su" to root or log in as root....? This allows me to have only root edit the / filesystem and set a group (say admin) who can edit the /usr/local filesystem..... Or is there some newer and better way to do this?

[claydoh]

Re: Ok, I am posting here because I am new to kubuntu...

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

[kmcgavran]

Re: Ok, I am posting here because I am new to kubuntu...

Ok, that clears up a lot.... thanks for all the info

[slackrat]

Re: Ok, I am posting here because I am new to kubuntu...

Personally , running both slack and kubuntu at the moment, i dont think ive seen much luck in trying to save home , much less user partitions with a different distro....even the same distro can lead you to a reinstall and starting from scratch when you realize how many dependencies and permissions got mucked up along the way.

Keep in mind that you ll have apt get to take control of and track your packages now as well, so as someone pointed out, you probably wont spend as much time configuring and worrying about deps.....apt will install whats needed for you.

Back up your docs and what you dont want to lose and save time in the end by letting the kubuntu cd work off a clean partition setup,,,

re:sudo,,,,theres alot of info out there on it......and notice, when you have to edit config scripts that kubuntu has an option in the drop down menu , ;edit as root; which will then prompt your user password (which is what sudo is looking for). On ubuntu , enabling a root account is asking for trouble,,,,,think of sudo as temporary root....heh

cheers