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Hi folks! Firstly, wishing you all a very happy 2016. Secondly, I'd love some help migrating to a new machine. My old machine runs LM Cinnamon 17.2, and the new one runs LM Cinnamon 17.3 (stock iso). I'd like to get a list of programs I've got installed on this machine and install them on the new ma...

No idea, but to get useful help from someone who does, consider posting:

1. The output of (gets your system info)
2. The script itself (remember to use the Code tags)
3. A description of what you did, what happened, and what you expected to happen.

Good luck!

JT

Richyrich,

Thanks for sharing! that's really good to see. Who knows, we could see linux on the moon one day...

Cheers. That's also a good idea. Downside is I'm using office '13, so I might have to dig around and find an old '07 disk lying around somewhere...

Hmm, thanks guys. Not quite what I wanted to hear.

I've tried FBLinux's suggestion, but it doesn't seem to help with excel macros. Nevermind, I'll just rewrite it in OOo's style instead.

Thanks for the help though

JT

Jedinovice wrote:But...I have just had a day off. My boss took the hint after I posted up ... subtle hints in the office. See attachments. (He's nice guy and he understood!)

Haha. Nice one. I bet they went down a treat!

Hope you used your day off down at the beach sunbaking!

Hey guys, I've introduced my folks to Mint Cinnamon edition. They're loving it, and I reckon they'd make the switch from Win 7 if I could find a way to make a certain excel spreadsheet work. It contains a macro written in VBA, and works as desired in a MS Excel environment. However, if I load it up ...

How about something that runs in the background? I use TLP. It doubled my battery life (in combination with dimming brightness). sudo apt-add-repository ppa:linrunner/tlp sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install tlp sudo tlp start Edit: If you're as thorough as you should be, you'll be wary of runni...

[guess] When rc.local runs, only root is ''logged in'', there's no Xserver so X requests have nowhere to go. [guess] If a command doesn't need root privilege, try putting it in your logged-in user's ~/.profile script. That makes sense, because I tried changing the script with an "&" after each line...

Hi all, I've got a startup script located in the default rc.local (/etc/rc.local), set as executable. If I call it from the terminal, it works fine. But, it doesn't actually start on startup! #!/bin/sh -e # # rc.local # # This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel. # Make sure tha...

Hi folks, Small gripe here, but does anyone know how to update a live mint session? For instance, I've been booting a live LM 17.2 MATE and trying the old sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade and it returns an error about not being able to write to the loopback (or something like that). Any i...

It isn't a problem to install W7 after Mint. You just have to reinstate the Grub in the MBR. Oh. Awesome. Thanks heaps. I reckon I'll just do that then... Unless the two laptops are nearly identical, after you copy one Win7 partition over the other, you're most likely going to end up with a Win7 th...

Hi folks, Here's my problem-of-the-week. I've recently scored a free "broken" laptop. It apparently had an OEM version of Win 7 which wouldn't boot. So, I shrank the Win 7 partition, installed Mint 17.2 Cinnamon, and it works beautifully. When I installed LM 17.2, it didn't detect an existing Win 7 ...

A cool idea. No idea how you'd accomplish it, but others might be better able to help if you post the output of

Xenopeek,

Why not simply install Pepper flash for Firefox? I've found a how-to here. Do you think it's a good idea for Firefox users?

Regards,

JT

Alright! Thanks for the replies, guys. I'm looking forward to when XFCE comes out on the new 17.2, and I'll give it a whirl!

Any MATE fans out there?

OK, extundelete worked as advertised -- it pulled a bunch of stuff that had been deleted. It also installed simple, with apt-get. Unfortunately, the stuff I wanted to rescue was gone. Thanks for your help anyway, BlackVeils. I'll close the thread (maybe rename it to Why it's important to label thing...

Oh dear. Dire news -- on a hunch, I cracked open my old fstab, located at /media/cameron/Mint17/etc/fstab. Unfortunately, it showed me exactly why my various key-word searches for stuff that should be in my old home partition didn't work: ... # /home was on /dev/sda7 during installation UUID=<sda7's...

your home directory will be at /media/cameron/Mint17/home/cameron Thanks for confirming, BlackVeils. Unfortunately, I've got nothing under there. The folder's empty (not even the usual Documents, Downloads etc sub-folders). I'm thinking that's probably because I followed a how-to on making a separa...

Note: This thread was originally called, "Migrate home folder", but was renamed to reflect a lesson the OP learned the hard way... Hi folks, I recently updated to 17.2 and it borked my 17.1 install. No worries; I simply re-downloaded the 17.2 iso from windows and installed it to another partition. ...