[ubuntu-studio-users] from 32bit to 64...

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Fri Dec 9 17:05:08 UTC 2016


On Fri, 2016-12-09 at 18:00 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Dec 2016 17:53:18 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Fri, 09 Dec 2016 08:30:05 -0800, Charlie Luna wrote:
> > > Ralf: the only answer i can give you is to do a clean install of a 64
> > > bit version of ubuntu. there's really no way to go from 32 to 64 bit
> > > with an upgrade or whateve. only a clean install will take care of
> > > that. sorry.  
> > 
> > I'm not the OP, I only run 64 bit Linux installs. The "64 bit" was a
> > typo and should read "32 bit". IOW 32 bit support will be dropped by
> > Ubuntu, x86 as well as ppc. FWIW other distros don't drop x86, but
> > getting ppc support might be an issue.
> 
> PS:
> 
> There at least are ways to get a list of all packages that are
> installed by the 32 bit install and after installing the 64 bit version
> it's possible to install all packages from this list. There was a
> discussion this or last year on the Ubuntu users mailing list, so the
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This is _not_ a typo, it was not discussed on the Ubuntu Studio list, it
was the Ubuntu list.

> answers are in the archive. There isn't just a single answer related to
> a list of all packages, because a user might follow a
> no-install-recommends philosophy and/or wants to ensure that auto and
> manual installed packages have the same status after reinstalling them,
> so this could require different ways to generate the package list.
> 



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