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infestator

Member

From: Russia, SPb

Registered: 2008-03-22

Posts: 12

converting x86_64 to i686 installation

hi all!

i decided to change my archlinux platfrom to i686. is there any way legal to do it?
i think if i change repo path to i686 and launch script like

#!/bin/sh

PACKAGES=`pacman -Q | awk '{print $1}'`
I=1
for PACKAGE in $PACKAGES; do
    echo $I. $PACKAGE
    pacman -S --asdeps --noconfirm $PACKAGE
    I=$(($I+1))
done

it must be enough. then i'll only need to reboot system and replace all lib32 and bin32 packages which've installed with native.

may be there're pitfalls in this way. can anybody help me with this?

best regards

skottish

Forum Fellow

From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,880

Re: converting x86_64 to i686 installation

Welcome to the forums infestator.

This comes up here now and then. I think all of these threads end the same:

Backup /home, /etc, and (possibly?) parts of /var. Use pacman to create a list of all installed files, and start from scratch.