Can I update 32-bit OpenELEC 5.0.8 to LibreELEC 8.0.2?

hughparker1 · June 11, 2017 at 3:19 PM

I have an old 32-bit laptop and I have installed a couple of linux distros as well as OpenELEC 5.0.8 setup which is on separate System and Data partitions with a boot entry in the grub menu. it works OK but I would like to update to latest LibreELEC.

I had a look for the latest .tar update file for LibreELEC but can only see this version...

'LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-8.0.2.tar'

I'm not sure if this will work on my 32-bit laptop as it states x86_64 which I think means 64-bit. Any advice would be appreciated.

hughparker1 · June 11, 2017 at 4:37 PM

When I look on DistroWatch table.php?distribution=libreelec

I can see it states following supported architectures ....

Architecture: armhf, armv7, i386, x86_64

Does that mean the .tar file would update my 32-bit system ok?

**CvH** · June 11, 2017 at 4:42 PM Official Post

if your Laptop is 32bit ONLY then x86_64 won't work (64bit only)

**Klojum** · June 11, 2017 at 4:58 PM Official Post

Quote from hughparker1

I have an old 32-bit laptop ...

Thus, the simple answer to your question is: no.

Sorry.

hughparker1 · June 11, 2017 at 9:25 PM

Quote from Klojum

Thus, the simple answer to your question is: no.

Sorry.

Quote from CvH

if your Laptop is 32bit ONLY then x86_64 won't work (64bit only)

I had a feeling i was barking up the wrong tree never mind, I suppose you have to let some old technology go eventually. thanks for feedback.

**chewitt** · June 11, 2017 at 9:34 PM Official Post

I dropped a note to distrowatch asking them to amend our profile and remove i386. It's still technically possible to create i386 images if you add back support to various build-system packages and compile the image yourself, but it's not something we'll do officially.