This is a blog post mainly about how to flexibly reinstall Kubuntu 17.04 GNU/Linux OS after the previous install running into troubled waters and break down.
Cycle through more than one disk in the install clean approach so get an USB-to-SATA3 casing and some hard drives. The idea is that to install the next OS you do not need to overwrite the previous OS.
- Get FireFox sync. This way you don’t need to import your bookmarks as sync does it for you.
- Take previous disk out of the computer and insert another disk, connect the USB installation medium (and select boot order in BIOS or UEFI) and power up.
- Install Kubuntu.
- Boot Kubuntu
- Open a shell and run ‘sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade’ to get the installed software to the latest version.
- Install software
- Monitoring: ‘sudo apt install htop atop iotop glances’ (glances will install python)
- Database: ‘sudo apt install mariadb-server’
- Graphics and video: ‘sudo apt install inkscape gimp kdenlive’
- Audio: ‘sudo apt install linux-lowlatency audacity fluidsynth patchage’
- Shell multiplexer: ‘sudo apt install tmux’
- Virtual machine: ‘sudo apt install virtualbox’
- Copy files:
- Connect the old disk to the computer with the USB-to-SATAIII casing and mount it
- I am trying to avoid getting broken confs from the old machine so only conf file I will take is in /media/username/UUID/username/.config/kdenlive. I used cp command in the shell to get it
- Copy all files and directories from your old home directory to the new home directory, tick “apply to all” and select “write into” when it asks what to do with directories that exist.
- Copy any other files you need. Unmount the external drive and remove and put in a cool and dry place.