switch from i386 to AMD64 without a total rebuild?

From: paul beard <paulbeard_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2023 02:38:39 UTC 
Some of the applications on my system are griping about a lack of 64 bit
support so I am looking into a switch. I am running it as a virtualbox
guest OS so cloning the existing disk was my first step. Can I somehow put
AMD64 on the clone? Or do I have to start from scratch and then add all the
packages and configs, etc?


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