Re: Convert a 64 bits machine from debian32 to debian64
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:19:10 -0500
"Sebastian Castillo" <castillobuiles@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Now i want to change that... i want to have all 64bits libraries, and
> kernel.. i begin installing the amd64 linux image package and the amd64 libc
> version but now i dont know all of the implications of this change.
I managed to make the transition, just to see if it could be done, but
it wasn't easy and I wouldn't suggest it unless you just want to tackle
it for education purposes.
Don't know a way to force apt-get (or it's front ends) to download
and install stuff of a different architecture than you have installed,
but dpkg can be told to do it with a -force option "architecture
[!] Process even packages with wrong architecture"
dpkg --force-architecture *.deb
: things will break along the way that need fixing, and I did have a
clean 64 bit installation on another partition that I started with
a minimal net-install installation so I could apt-get stuff and
have the packages to install in the installation I was making the
transition on and also so I could compare things and chroot the
installation I was making the transition in when things broke.
Later, Seeker
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