Prepping /home for installation

[jzakiya]

I want to create a clean install of KDE4 with 2010.

I have a separate /home and / partitions for PCLOS
(along with partitions for Win XP, and a VFAT partition for data).

I know from upgrading from 2007 to 2009 it used settings in the
.xxx files in my /home directory for various apps when installing.

Should I remove all the .xxx files (.kde, .gimp, etc) to ensure those
settings have no affect on the new codebase apps.

My /home is formatted with ReseirFS

[Joble]

I backed up my home to a usb drive and install it all clean then brought back just the configs I needed.  Worked out well for me.  Otherwise I would advise removing, or at least renaming the .kde folder.

[menotu]

I'd recommend backing up and moving your /home data etc to somewhere safe and the do a completely fresh install (formatting / and /homel)

Then when you have 2010 installed and setup as you like, I would move data back over, but would suggest doing it a bit at a time and then if you get problems you can pin it down fairly quickly.

That worked for me and I didn't have any problems at all.

Good luck.

[jzakiya]

Thanks for the advice.  Will apply judiciously.