Alan Ianson wrote: > On January 30, 2009 06:11:54 am tinkywinky wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've installed x86 version of Lenny, but I have 64-bit processor. I'd like >> to change to use 64-bit version of debian. Is that possible without having >> to reinstall? > > I think you are best off to reinstall. "dpkg --get-selections" > and "dpkg --set-selections" might help if you want to end up in the same > place you are now. >
After saving your configurations in /etc, even better would be something like this on the old system aptitude -F '%p' search '~i!~M' > manually-installed take the file "manually-installed" to the system to be installed and command, e.g., xargs < manually-installed aptitude -y install Alternatively, save at least the information which packages are installed automatically and restore that information: on the old system aptitude -F '%p' search '~M' > automatically-installed take the file "automatically-installed" to the otherwise restored system and command, e.g., xargs < automatically-installed aptitude -y markauto -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org