On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:31 AM, Friedrich Strohmaier <damokles4-listen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I installed 64-bit arch on a low memory laptop (1G) not thinking about the > higher memory requirement. > > Now I wonder, whether I can approach to change it by changing the pacman.conf > entry > > Architecture = auto > to > Architecture = i686 > > and reinstall all explicitly installed packages. > > I feel like it should work. > > Any "don't do that"s, "go for it"s, "I did it"s out there :o)). > -- > Friedrich This is doable, and described in the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Migrating_Between_Architectures_Without_Reinstalling I performed that move in the past, though in the reverse direction (i686 → x86_64). I didn’t have a problem with it. -- Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <http://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16 stop html mail | always bottom-post | only UTF-8 makes sense
