PerlTk - Question about moving pre-existing tk installation to new linux computer

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Question about moving pre-existing tk installation to new linux computer

bdz

2006-10-30, 7:09 pm

I sort of crashed my Ubuntu installation. I have not lost my personal
files but I had to reinstall Ubuntu Linux. I still have access to my
previous installation=B4s home directory and also the other partitions
by mounting the old harddrive as a second drive.

I can go through all the CPAN steps and install the various packages
and modules but is there any way I can copy the perl and tk parts of
the old installation from the old harddrive to the new one?

I have Gnu/Linux Ubuntu 6.10 now (a form of Debien), previously I had
Ubuntu 6.06.

Sorry to have to ask such a basic question.

zentara

2006-10-31, 7:58 am

On 30 Oct 2006 18:17:14 -0800, "bdz" <bdalzell@qis.net> wrote:

>I sort of crashed my Ubuntu installation. I have not lost my personal
>files but I had to reinstall Ubuntu Linux. I still have access to my
>previous installation´s home directory and also the other partitions
>by mounting the old harddrive as a second drive.
>
>I can go through all the CPAN steps and install the various packages
>and modules but is there any way I can copy the perl and tk parts of
>the old installation from the old harddrive to the new one?
>
>I have Gnu/Linux Ubuntu 6.10 now (a form of Debien), previously I had
>Ubuntu 6.06.
>
>Sorry to have to ask such a basic question.

Your big worry would be binary compatibility between the basic c-libs
for Ubuntu 6.06 vs. 6.10

This is the same problem with trying to install binary rpms on differing
systems, they will complain about 'missing c-libs' or 'wrong
libc-version'.

So I'm unfamiliar with Ubuntu's levels, but you might just want to try
copying the whole /usr/lib/perl5 and /usr/bin/perl ( etc) to your new
system, and try it. If it dosn't run, then you need to rebuild from
scratch, or get the new Ubuntu binary packages.

6.06 vs 6.10 is fairly close, and I doubt if it involved changed the
libc version.

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Slaven Rezic

2006-11-15, 6:59 pm

"bdz" <bdalzell@qis.net> writes:

> I sort of crashed my Ubuntu installation. I have not lost my personal
> files but I had to reinstall Ubuntu Linux. I still have access to my
> previous installation´s home directory and also the other partitions
> by mounting the old harddrive as a second drive.
>
> I can go through all the CPAN steps and install the various packages
> and modules but is there any way I can copy the perl and tk parts of
> the old installation from the old harddrive to the new one?
>
> I have Gnu/Linux Ubuntu 6.10 now (a form of Debien), previously I had
> Ubuntu 6.06.
>
> Sorry to have to ask such a basic question.
>

You can just add a debian source into your /etc/apt/sources.list and
fetch a Perl/Tk package from debian. I tried it a couple of days ago,
it works.

Regards,
Slaven

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