That is what I did, on both my own machine and another - just left the /home partition alone and did a new installation wiping the / partition.
But. There are a couple of things to be careful of. Your menus may end up with a lot of junk in them unless the packages stay exactly the same. Mine did, lots of obsolete entries that had to be cleaned up by hand. And your / partition may not be big enough. And I am not sure about VMs, whether the 64 bit version will install and work perfectly with the disk files which I keep on /home. I did my virtual box installs and created the virtual drives in 64 bit mode. I am not sure whether when they are created with a 32 bit version they would still work the same with a 64 bit version. I have found the latest versions of gnome and kde quite impossible, but the latest version of mate is wonderful and is a perfect replacement for gnome 2 for people who don't like the quirks of xfce4. Claws is a pretty decent replacement for both evolution and kontact. Cherrytree is superb replacement for kjots. I don't know what the kde people were thinking of to wreck a very nice package like that. But then what were the gnome people thinking. Its like the linux DTE world all lost their senses at once. Fortunately if you use fluxbox it just carries on regardless, but for the poor average user, its a nightmare. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-upgrading-Linux-to-64-bit-tp4691578p4691747.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
