Upgrading *NIX Workstation

This will describe the major steps to migrate my *NIX workstation.

First of all this serves as a reminder to myself and anyone else who wants to migrate over to a new os or hardware.

Applications of Interest:

Thunderbird
Firefox
subversion
mrxvt (Terminal)
synergy2
quicksynergy
gastify
ies4linux
vncrec
VNCServer
wine
tentakel
sshfs
xubuntu-restricted-extras
X.Org
fsfe card (poldi pam.d/gdm)

Files of interest:

~/*
Desktop/*
.bashrc
.profile
.xsession
synergy.conf
.ssh/*
.gnupg/*

Debian / *Ubunut

Package List

dpkg -l > /tmp/dpkg-hostname-lst.txt

Files by application

Firefox

~/.mozilla/firefox/${PROFILE}/ -> extensions(.ini) -> cookies.txt -> bookmarks.html -> cert8.db -> key3.db -> signons*.txt -> prefs.js -> blocklist.xml

let us make a small tar ball of the stuff tar cfv mozilla-firefox-backup.tar extensions* cookies.txt bookmarks.html cert8.db key3.db signons*.txt prefs.js blocklist.xml

Thunderbird

~/.mozilla-thunderbird/${PROFILE}/ -> abook.mab -> blocklist.xml -> cert8.db -> extensions(.ini) -> history.mab -> key3.db -> localstore.rdf -> prefs.js -> mailViews.dat -> signons.txt -> training.dat

ImapMail/*

Current Desktop

mrxvt Lock Me Internet Explorer