Which Debian package architecture am I using?

Question

What's the command to find out which Debian package architecture I'm using?

eg, on a 64 bit x86, I'm expecting something like amd64, i386 on 32 bit x86 and darwin-x86_64 from OSX 10.6 (via Fink).

score 113 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 09 '10 at 05:12

113

or

dpkg --print-architecture

answered Feb 09 '10 at 05:12

13k

score 20 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 08 '10 at 11:53

20

dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH

answered Jan 08 '10 at 11:53

therefromhere

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`dpkg-architecture` is in the `dpkg-dev` package which isn't installed by default (although it is a dependency of `build-essential`). However, `dpkg` is by definition guaranteed to be there. – Neil Mayhew Feb 26 '13 at 18:15
@NeilMayhew good call, switched my accepted answer – therefromhere Feb 26 '13 at 21:29

score 17 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 28 '15 at 12:13

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In case you did add some other architecture that you forgot, like i386 to an amd64 system, you can check it by:

dpkg --print-foreign-architectures

answered Feb 28 '15 at 12:13

tmh1999

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