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You can also check, if earlier versions of Gimp left behind their directories, | You can also check, if earlier versions of Gimp left behind their directories, | ||
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A lot of programs are using the (relatively new) freedesktop XDG basedir setup, which puts configuration files in .config, cache in .cache and various data files of the application in .local | A lot of programs are using the (relatively new) freedesktop XDG basedir setup, which puts configuration files in .config, cache in .cache and various data files of the application in .local | ||
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Now the XDG standard provides a mechanism to move those files to another location, and we suggest users move them to one of their local data disks. We also provide a script that takes care of the environment setup, but selecting a location and moving the files is something you have to do yourself. | Now the XDG standard provides a mechanism to move those files to another location, and we suggest users move them to one of their local data disks. We also provide a script that takes care of the environment setup, but selecting a location and moving the files is something you have to do yourself. | ||
- | A quick solution | + | A quick solution |
- | mv ~/.cache / | + | mv ~/ |
- | ln -s / | + | ln -s / |
a more complete setup works like this: | a more complete setup works like this: |