After
almost one
year I managed, just in these days, to change my Internet
provider and have back my land-line ADSL connection. First things
first, I started with updating my home desktop computer (the Acer
Veriton S661) I left mostly unattended during this period since my
mobile Internet contract was barely enough for daily connectivity
needs. Unfortunately
it seems my computer has been left too much without upgrading and the
update process halted signaling many “404” errors while accessing
to different repository locations. May be I could find another
solution to upgrade my system but, since I usually keep the “/home/”
folder on a separate partition, I decided to go for a complete
re-installation of latest Ubuntu-Gnome
release.
The
installation process
I
proceeded with installing as usual, prepared a USB disk with Ubuntu's
tool, booted from it and went on with installing. On order to
maintain my separate home partition I selected the custom “Something
else” installation type
then I selected the root partition, marked it to be formatted, and the home partition (without formatting if of course) using the disk partitioning tool.
In a
few minutes I had the upgraded system ready for rebooting.
First run
At the first run the new system took most of Gnome-Shell extensions
configurations from my home folder. I only had to go to the
Gnome-Shell extension page
to manually upgrade a handful of shell extensions and I had back my
usual desktop look.
Now I just have to install all application I use, most of them will
take old configuration from my home folder without problems.
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