Ubuntu... downgrade? (64-bit -> 32-bit)

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Ryan Stanyan <ryan.stanyan at gmail.com> writes:
>
> As far as I know you can't downgrade a 64-bit installation to a
> 32-bit one.  I am not the most current in terms of Ubuntu knowledge
> but the closest I came to this was reinstalling all my media codecs
> in their 32-bit form

What Ryan said--there's an `ia32-libs' package (and some other,
related `ia32' packages) that can be installed on 64-bit systems
to facilitate things like that.


> On Jan 25, 2011 10:00 PM, "Ken D&apos;Ambrosio" <ken at jots.org> wrote:
> > Hey, all. I've got a big ol' RAID box that I use to store... well, pretty
> > much everything. Threw 64-bit Ubuntu on it, 'cause, well, why not?
> >
> > I now know why not.
> >
> > I'm afraid I've fallen into the portable device rage, e.g., my Droid-X.
> > Nifty thing, it is -- even set it up with VPN, SIP through my job, and all
> > sorts of other fun stuff. Now I'd like to play video from my server on
> > the phone. Unfortunately, its media player is pretty useless -- far
> > better to generate video from the server, and stream it, apparently. But!
> > 64-bit CODECs are also kinda lousy. And it's not like I have a oodles of
> > RAM -- 2 GB -- so dropping to a 32-bit system won't really harm anything.
> >
> > But Googling that doesn't really help much. Any suggestions? What I'd
> > *love* to do is an "apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade", and be done with
> > it. Somehow, though, I'm thinking it won't be that simple. I'd really
> > like to avoid a full re-install -- a lot of configuration has gone into
> > this silly thing, and, while I could backup /etc and pray that was enough,
> > I'd prefer not to find out the hard way.
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions,

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