-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 02:07:13PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > On Thursday 30 August 2007 20:19:06 Britton Kerin wrote: > > I just bought a computer that came with ubuntu and would like to switch > > it to pure debian. Is there a standard way to do this that someone > > could point me to? > > > > (Though I will say that little hack where the shell tells you which > > package a program is in looks pretty cute and helpful :) > > > > Thanks, > > Britton > > There are plenty of messages in this thread to make one think that it is > possible to convert from Debian to Ubuntu and vice versa, but let me point > out one thing that many have overlooked. > > Since Ubuntu uses sudo for everything, when using programs that require root > access expect the user password, not the root one. So if you enable the root > account, you might think, OK, I need to use the root password here (after all > early versions of Ubuntu actually asked for the root password) but no, it > still wants the user password (the first user, who is defined in the sudoers > file) > > AFAIK, gksu and kdesu both act this way, as does the "administrator mode" in > the GUI apps. From what I understand, these utilities are hacked to use > sudo. > > Do yourself a favor and just backup /home and install Debian, then slowly but > surely copy the files from the backup to the new /home. Be careful though, > different versions of some programs have different configurations, and can > cause problems if you're using a config file for a different version of a > program. > > Joe > >
I actually remember that forcing programs to use sudo (and gksudo) instead of root is in gconf, I just forget exactly where. Maybe someone else can point Joe and I in the right direction. - -- If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs. - Richard Stallman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG3WZcg6qL2BGnx4QRApA4AJ9aKw2YIaTQUSOZtvQJBLHvPIIiZwCfZDMU 7I5ZCQOCKJj0MeWztpB8Qrw= =nQlk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
