From opensuse Wed Mar 12 13:12:26 2014 From: Alvin Beach Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:12:26 +0000 To: opensuse Subject: Re: [opensuse] switch from 32bit opensuse to 64bit Message-Id: <53205D3A.9000101 () gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=opensuse&m=139462996006379 On 12/03/14 07:58, Paul Neuwirth wrote: > Hallo, > I accidently installed 32 bit opensuse on several machines. > Is there an easy way to switch to 64bit? such as adding 86_64 repos and zypper --dup --allow-architecture-change (unfortunately this option doesn't > exist)? > Any hints? > A notice in the setup, that a 32bit os is going to be installed on a 64bit system would be very nice... > Thanks a lot in advance Not sure if there is an easy way, but I changed one of machine from 32bit -> 64bit using Yast (GUI version). I simply went through and selected all 64bit. In some cases, Yast auto-selected some as I was going through. I did have to go back into Yast a couple of times because I missed packages. What I found was the the 64bit and 32bit versions tolerated each other during the transition. Alvin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org