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Re: clean upgrade 32 -> 64?



On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 05:08:37PM -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> I'm about to replace one of my old 32-bit x86 Debian boxes with a
> 64-bit; I'll actually just be moving the disk drives out of the old box
> into the new one and doing any minor configuration changes that'll be
> neede (which will be very minor).  So, while I'm at it, I'm curious --
> is there any clean way to do an update that will simply replace all the
> 32 bit packages with 64 (and do all the other necessary multiarch
> stuff)?

It depends.

Arguably the cleanest solution is to re-install using a 64-bit
installer. However, this will blow away your configuration, choice of
packages and so on.

If you want to cross-grade, the accepted procedure is detailed here:
https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading

> 
> I'm not actually doing anything with it that will require 64 bits; if
> the answer is "no" I'll simply continue to run it as a 32 bit machine.
> 
> So, is it possible?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
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