Changing from 11.3 32 bit to 11.4 64 bit

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#1

I have 11.3 32 bit running on a machine capable of 64 bit function.
With 11.4 coming up, I would like to install the 64 bit version but keep my settings, documents, installed programmes etc.
Is there a way to do this?

#2

You need to do a fresh install but you can keep /home. Make a backup just in case, it goes without saying.

#3

Thanks - just /home?

#4

On 2011-02-28 00:36, PhilipTimms wrote:
>
> I have 11.3 32 bit running on a machine capable of 64 bit function.
> With 11.4 coming up, I would like to install the 64 bit version but
> keep my settings, documents, installed programmes etc.
> Is there a way to do this?

You can upgrade. The procedure works fine, but it is not supported and has
some quircks. I wrote my notes about this in the “howto submissions”
subforum, read it.

You can also install fresh, if you have a separate /home partition.
However, this procedure will not keep programs nor system global
configurations or data.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)

#5

Well if you have mysql data, website or third party programs in /opt for example, you would have to make arrangements for those.