Switching to AMD64

[Tollef Fog Heen]

* Jack Bertram 

| - what commands to run to upgrade from i686 to AMD64 in a working hoary
|   install

You don't.  (Unless you are crazy.  Which means it's possible, but if
it breaks, you get to keep all the parts.)

| - what might break if I do so

Everything.  More or less. ;)

| Can anyone point me to some links?

Reinstall is the simple solution unless you want to get intimately
familiar with how shared libraries, the kernel and the dynamic linker
works.  (If you do want to do that: install a 64bit-capable kernel,
move /lib to /lib32; symlink it back (keep a sash while doing this),
then reinstall all your packages, possibly with a bit of
--force-architecture.)

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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