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Re: seeking help from smart people

wyliecoyoteuk — Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:07 am

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:07 am

Are you talking about moving the application or the files created with it?
As for the application, if it is not available for the distro in question, it may be because there a re unfulfillable dependencies.
If it is the files, copying your /home folder is often enough.

Re: seeking help from smart people

guy — Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:38 pm

Author: guy

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:38 pm

Yes, just install it on your new distro like you did on the old.

Distros are not all alike, software moves on, so it is quite likely not possible to actually move an app - and it's a bad idea even if you could.

Re: seeking help from smart people

towy71 — Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:11 am

Author: towy71

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:11 am

I'm not sure what you mean, you can install most programs on any distro you like, usually through the appropriate installer: Synaptic on Debian, Yast on Suse, Yum on Fedora etc.

seeking help from smart people

stubz151 — Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:59 am

Author: stubz151

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:59 am

How can I take an application on one distro(eg. libraoffice) and move it to my current distro.