Which Debian package architecture am I using?

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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).

therefromhere · Answer 1 · 2010-01-08 11:53:38Z

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dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH

answered Jan 8 '10 at 11:53

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user27674 · Answer 2 · 2010-02-09 05:12:10Z

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or

dpkg --print-architecture

answered Feb 9 '10 at 5:12

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