Upgrade to AMD 64bit?

[Matthew Vermeulen]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Senectus . <senectus at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have 7.10 installed and it just occurred to me that I could be using
> the AMD 64 version :-P
> Is that a complete re-install or is there an upgrade path for that?
>
I'm pretty certain that's a complete reinstall, since every single package
on the system must be replaced with a version compiled for amd64.
Additionally there are a few things that don't work so well on amd64, eg
Adobe Flash (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/Flash).
Your /home directory should be fine for use on the amd64 system though, so
if you have that on a separate partition you shouldn't need to wipe that.

Hope that helps :)

Cheers,

Matt

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