On 02.Apr 2003 - 15:30:43, Aryan Ameri wrote: > Hi: > > Thanks Seven, Daniel and Ralph for their prompt advices. > > On Wednesday 02 April 2003 12:27, Sven Kissner wrote: > > Hi Aryan, > > > > just move ~/.kde out of the wa a ky (maybe to ~/.kde.old), it contains > > all of your settings. (you may check /etc/ fordm dir, also..). > > Aside from ~/.kde, I also have a /etc/kde3, shall I also backup this > directory? Will restoring these two directories, really restore all my > KDE settings? like konqueror's bookmarks and KMail's filters? I'm > afraid I am just a bit worried.
if /etc/kde3 is installed from the kde packages: yes. The restoring should be done by hand and one setting after another, because sometimes the programs stop working if the settings-files are confusing for them. Konquerors bookmarks are in ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml, how the file with kmails filters is called I don't know, but it is supposed to be in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail. So that will be restored when you restore ~/.kde . > What about my ~/.Mail directory. I guess this one is used by KMail, will > removing KMail also remove this directory? That directory does not depend on KDE, KMail places index-Files into that but any other MUA will use that directory too. Anyway even purging KDE does not remove anything in your $HOME, only system configurationfiles in /etc are deleted with a --purge, whereas without they would reside there. > What about fonts that I have installed via KDE Control Center's font > installer? Shall I also reinstall them after installing the new KDE? Sorry don't know about that, as I installed all fonts by hand/by defoma (I think - was long time ago). > On Wednesday 02 April 2003 13:04, Daniel Stone wrote: > > and then run apt-get install arts kdelibs kdebase > > kdenetwork kdeutils [...] > > Where can I get the names of the these metapackages? How about "apt-cache search kde | grep ^kde" ? Andreas -- You teach best what you most need to learn.
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