Replacing 4k+ with a V

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Hi,
For the above, to set up my new V, is it just a case of doing a full backup of the 4K+, then restore onto the V, or are there other issues to consider?

thanks

2

If you are not mounting your media disk volumes using, eg, autofs that should do it. You would also have to install any add-ons which are not provided on Vero by default.

3

thanks Graham - I access all my media via wired network, using SMB, so presumably should be ok?

4

I believe so, if you are just using Kodi’s file system to access SMB shares.

5

Yes, but make sure both systems are up to date

6

Will this copy all addons over too?
If I do a dpkg --get-selection > Installed.txt and then use that list to install any non installed packages on the V if I can get SSH to work?

7

This will break your system as it will install Vero 4K specific packages.

The backup should copy the add-ons from the local Kodi directory, yes

8

I did dpkg --get-selections > installed.txt on both devices and then used the diff command with grep “<” to list all packages that weren’t already installed and came up with this list:

avahi-utils                                     install       <
dirmngr                                         install       <
e2fslibs:armhf                                  install       <
fdisk                                           install       <
gcc-8-base:armhf                                install       <
gnupg                                           install       <
gnupg-l10n                                      install       <
gnupg-utils                                     install       <
gpg                                             install       <
gpg-agent                                       install       <
gpg-wks-client                                  install       <
gpg-wks-server                                  install       <
gpgconf                                         install       <
gpgsm                                           install       <
iw                                              install       <
libapt-pkg5.0:armhf                             install       <
libassuan0:armhf                                install       <
libcomerr2:armhf                                install       <
libfdisk1:armhf                                 install       <
libgcc1:armhf                                   install       <
libksba8:armhf                                  install       <
libldap-common                                  install       <
libncursesw5:armhf                              install       <
libnpth0:armhf                                  install       <
libtinfo5:armhf                                 install       <
libusb-1.0-0:armhf                              install       <
libustr-1.0-1:armhf                             install       <
multiarch-support                               install       <
pinentry-curses                                 install       <

Just a case of installing the packages you need from this list.

10

Why not just start to use the V and when you find something that doesn’t work, install whatever it needs?

11

It was just a way of finding out what I had installed before. I haven’t installed any of those packages, but on a previous run of the command it picked up autofs, bash-completion and locate which I did install.

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For future reference: APT history.log should let you see what you have installed yourself.
If some packages weren’t installed by yourself but picked up, they will be picked up again as dependencies if needed.

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