Right now I have BTC, DOGE & LTC running on it but the QT for EGC I went to hell and back from under the old Distro. Wont run, yes assumptions are like a**holes... everybody has one. I assume it's a library thing.
If you were coping the old binaries over then that's liable to fail as you're unlikely to find the right compatible libraries (windows tends to keep every possible library version around now which is partly why it grows so huge).
Yes that means I have a running wallet. Sooo much easier to do on Mint which I know is one of many flavors that is NOT CentOS and gave me the headaches from before.
If it worked on mint, then it should have worked as easily on Ubuntu or Debian. Without knowing what errors you had on CentOS/Fedora it's hard to suggest what the issue might have been, this also means if there's an issue in the code or instructions then it's not going to get fixed.
Providing some useful error messages etc could have meant you could have got help and you would have helped the community with potential fixes. From me building the daemon on fedora (which tends to be ahead on package versions than debian and its derivatives) we've already found one patch for the code which will benefit debian/ubuntu/mint at some point in the future when they update their package versions.
I didn't transfer anything. I mean I tried but it didn't work. So I successfully built from source and am hoping to be down downloading the chain by days end. What broke it before on Cent was me doing an upgrade or something since it was one of my last deeds before the system went to shit and building on Cent was a nightmare just to get libraries installed.