Hi Dirk On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 12:14 +0100, Dirk Schleicher wrote: > Hello there, > > after 1,5 years I will try to go from testing i386 back to amd64. > It seams that amd64 is now more stable then 1,5 years ago. I've just bought my first AMD64 system and went to sid without too many issues. > By the way I will ask what is necessary to have in the source list for > testing? There are some backports available? Replace the references to "stable" with "testing". Personally I prefer to used the name that way I get the choice of which version of Debian - it's a freedom thing :-) > What is the best way to update a 1,5 years old amd64 system to testing? > > testing source in the sourcelist > apt-get update > apt-get install apt apt-utils dselect dpkg > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > Will this work? It should do. I installed sarge first and then set my sources.list to: deb http://amd64.debian.net/debian sid main Rather than just to a "dist-upgrade" I first did a "upgrade" - just trying to do it in small cunchs to reduce the risk. Okay, I know it's sid and you get what you payfor, but the biggest grip I have is a dependancy thing (suprise, suprise). "gnome" won't install bycause "gnome-destop-environment" won't install because "gnomemeeting" wont't install because it depends upon "libpt-1.8.7" which has been replaced with "libpt-1.10.0". But I managed to install most of the other dependancies by hand. The system works well for me. All the packages I needed so far have installed okay. > To run 32bit aps. into 64 there are two ways. 1. to run them inside a > chroot or with 32 libs. What kind of lobs I need to do this? Or is it > better to use the chroot? I avoide the whole 32bit problem by using X11. I still have 32bit systems around. OOo and anything else I need is installed on there and all I do is set the DISPLAY to my 64-bit system. Works fine and my 64-bit system isn't infected with those all 32-bit libraries or applications. > Will VMPlayer with W2k run under 64? Don't use it. Steve
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