<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Colin Law <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clanlaw@googlemail.com">clanlaw@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On 1 December 2010 18:16, <<a href="mailto:pkaplan1@comcast.net">pkaplan1@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>>>On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 10:00:58AM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:<br>>>[...]<br>
>>> What am I missing? A repository? A package? This is a first time for<br>>>> me,<br>>>> so I'm completely clueless, and the<br>>>> only advice I can see is about installing fresh, which I'd really rather<br>
>>> not<br>>>> do.<br>>><br>>>Kevin,<br>>><br>>>To move from 32- to 64-bit you'll need to do a fresh install using a<br>>>64-bit iso.<br>>><br>>>--<br>>>Scott Stevenson <<a href="mailto:scott@ecubyx.com">scott@ecubyx.com</a>><br>
><br>> If you haven't already kept /home on a separate partition, you should in the<br>> future; it will make life easier.<br>> In any case, back up /home and restore later, it will allow you to keep your<br>
> config files.<br><br></div>As has been pointed out here a number of times it is possible to<br>install over an existing ubuntu without losing the home directory.<br>When installing, select Advanced option, select the existing ubuntu<br>
partition as '/' but do _not_ select Format. This will then replace<br>all the system files leaving /home as is. It will still be necessary<br>to re-install any extra apps required, but the settings should be<br>
retained in /home.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Colin<br></font>
<div class="im"><br>> You might also want to run<br>> $dpkg -l > ~/installed<br>> to save the list of installed packages to a file called "installed" and then<br>> refer to that that as you install any non-default packages you may have<br>
> installed on your 32-bit machine.<br>> Good luck,<br>> Paul<br><br></div></blockquote>
<div>Rats. I'm not going to do any of the above, because it's clear that no one boot system can be both 32 and 64. So I'll create a new partition and do a fresh 64-bit install. This is really just a feasability study, so I'm not interested in making permanent changes to existing stuff (yet). And I've got the space.</div>
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<div>Thanks, all responders. The info was at least indirectly helpful.</div>
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<div>++ kevin</div></div>