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