[lubuntu-users] On Lubuntu 18.04, is a 32-bit /home compatible with a 64-bit home?

[Aere Greenway]

On 06/04/2018 05:31 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 04:30:52PM -0600, Aere Greenway wrote:
>> I'm thinking of switching my 32-bit Lubuntu to 64-bit, when I go to 18.04
> I think this is wise. In case you haven't heard the rumblings about
> ubuntu-release and ubuntu-devel, there's much talk of dropping 32 bit.
> In fact, most flavors have opted to drop it. Lubuntu is seriously
> considering following suit.
>
> Do note, though, that despite the potential for dropping it as a release
> architecture, 32 bit packages will likely live on for a long time.
>
>> My idea is to restore (including hidden files) my 32-bit Lubuntu 16.04.4
>> /home directory, to a new Lubuntu 18.04 64-bit system.
> I think this is the best solution, though I have not tested it. I had a
> multiarch system set up, where I was running a 64 bit kernel but had a
> menagerie of 32 and 64 bit userland that had all sorts of dependency
> issues. I probably could have bothered to ultimately fix it, but it
> would have been much more headache than what I wanted. Ultimately, I
> gave up on it and installed a new system. I actually restored only the
> /home files (especially configs) that I needed, after the new system was
> installed. The advantage of this is that if something about the format
> or options of the config files changed in the upgrade, I wasn't stuck
> trying to figure that out.
>
> Let us know how it goes!

Walter:

Thank you very much for commenting on my proposed change, based on your 
extensive experience.

A hard-drive that is on its 'last-legs' is driving me to change now.

I think what I'm going to do, since I still need to support both 32-bit 
and 64-bit asound library Java-native code, is that I will start with 
restoring to a 32-bit system on the new drive, then try what I mentioned 
above, restoring to a 64-bit system.

At some point, when I am satisfied with the 64-bit system, I will 
'transfer my flag' to the 64-bit system.

I'm assuming that since Lubuntu 18.04 is a Long Term Support system, and 
that it now supports 32-bit architecture, that it will continue to 
support 32-bit architecture through its support life.

-- 
Sincerely,
Aere