On Thursday 10 Jul 2014 19:42:39 Scott Lawrence wrote:
Hey,
Never tried that particular piece of reckless foolery :). However, I'd guess that once the libraries were replaced with incompatible versions, the installation scripts would start to fail, and then you'd be pretty badly stuck.
I also think this would happen.
Instead (but this requires a lot of disk space), perhaps install the 64-bit versions of all current packages to a chroot, and then do a massive copy? You'd have to be sure to get the important parts in one command on the copy, otherwise your binaries might start being unusuable. (Or, install busybox and use that to do things more carefully.)
Yes, I don't think you'll be able to do this in-place. A chroot is a possibility, possibly onto a separate logical volume (if you used LVM?). There's not much difference between doing that and reinstalling from scratch, though. Paul