On 06/30/2017 07:52 PM, Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Peter Flynn <[email protected]> wrote: > [snip] >> Or do I have to do a from-scratch installation (not a major >> problem, as /home is on a separate partition, and most all the >> important stuff is on SVN repos). > > You would be better off reinstalling your system using a 64bit distro.
I did exactly that. As I keep a separate backup of additional non-standard stuff, it worked just fine. For the record: Recommended: 1. If you can, create a /home partition, or install a second drive and make it /home (or whatever structure you want for the place where you keep *your* stuff). 2. If you have non-standard stuff you have added, *always* keep it somewhere like /usr/local/src and back that up separately (eg to USB), or rsync it to some place else. I also keep things like the installation tar.gz files of the small amount of commercial software that I have bought in that directory too, so I can reinstall it from there if I need to. 3. I have a bunch of shared stuff that I use on lots of systems, mainly my Emacs add-ons and my DTD/Schema collection, both of which have standard locations in /usr/local, so they are in SVN repos on my server, so I can add them back to any newly- installed system without difficulty. > There has been talk about a successful upgrade from a 32bit core to > a 64bit one. Yet that procedure is not fail-proof and might require > you to compile your own kernel. I'll pass on that, thanks :-) > You be better off backing up any critical files you have (docs, > scripts, config files) and reinstalling a 64bit distro. Works fine. Better, in fact, as the ltXML2 utilities were giving me problems compiling them under the 32bit distro, but under 64bit they compiled and installed without a glitch. Some C++ weirdness. ///Peter -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
