Re: Ubuntu... downgrade? (64-bit - 32-bit)

2011-01-26 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: Hmmm... might be worth looking into.  I mean, what's the worst that happens?  I bork my system, and wind up doing a re-install.  Which is what I'm looking at, anyway.  So, yeah -- I'll poke around and see what I can make

Re: Ubuntu... downgrade? (64-bit - 32-bit)

2011-01-26 Thread Brian St. Pierre
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: Hmmm... might be worth looking into.  I mean, what's the worst that happens?  I bork my system, and wind up doing a re-install.  Which is what I'm

Re: Ubuntu... downgrade? (64-bit - 32-bit)

2011-01-26 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Wed, January 26, 2011 8:54 am, Benjamin Scott wrote: I have an idea I've been turning over in my head which may be applicable here, too: Set up another installation in a directory branch. In your case, maybe under /usr/ubuntu-i386/ or something like that. That could be fun. *ponders

Re: Ubuntu... downgrade? (64-bit - 32-bit)

2011-01-26 Thread Tom Buskey
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Brian St. Pierre br...@bstpierre.orgwrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: Hmmm... might be worth looking into. I mean, what's the worst that

Re: Ubuntu... downgrade? (64-bit - 32-bit)

2011-01-26 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: Googling around didn't come up with anything that simple -- but I did find something: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/package-database-rebuild.html Ahh that was the missing puzzle piece. Thanks! Below is a series of

Ubuntu... downgrade? (64-bit - 32-bit)

2011-01-25 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Hey, all. I've got a big ol' RAID box that I use to store... well, pretty much everything. Threw 64-bit Ubuntu on it, 'cause, well, why not? I now know why not. I'm afraid I've fallen into the portable device rage, e.g., my Droid-X. Nifty thing, it is -- even set it up with VPN, SIP through

Re: Ubuntu... downgrade? (64-bit - 32-bit)

2011-01-25 Thread Ryan Stanyan
As far as I know you can't downgrade a 64-bit installation to a 32-bit one. I am not the most current in terms of Ubuntu knowledge but the closest I came to this was reinstalling all my media codecs in their 32-bit form On Jan 25, 2011 10:00 PM, Ken Dapos;Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: Hey, all.

Re: Ubuntu... downgrade? (64-bit - 32-bit)

2011-01-25 Thread Corey Richardson
On 01/25/2011 09:57 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Hey, all. I've got a big ol' RAID box that I use to store... well, pretty much everything. Threw 64-bit Ubuntu on it, 'cause, well, why not? I now know why not. I'm afraid I've fallen into the portable device rage, e.g., my Droid-X. Nifty

Re: Ubuntu... downgrade? (64-bit - 32-bit)

2011-01-25 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ryan Stanyan ryan.stan...@gmail.com writes: As far as I know you can't downgrade a 64-bit installation to a 32-bit one.  I am not the most current in terms of Ubuntu knowledge but the closest I came to this was reinstalling all my media codecs in their 32-bit form What Ryan said--there's an

Re: Ubuntu... downgrade? (64-bit - 32-bit)

2011-01-25 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On Tue, January 25, 2011 10:32 pm, Mark Komarinski wrote: On 1/25/2011 9:57 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: What are you using for streaming? Even though my system is Debian running x86_64, I haven't had a problem finding libraries. I ask mostly because I'd like to do the same thing with my