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).

13k · Accepted Answer · 2010-02-09 05:12:10Z

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dpkg --print-architecture

answered Feb 9, 2010 at 5:12

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

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dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH

answered Jan 8, 2010 at 11:53

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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
Commented Feb 26, 2013 at 18:15
@NeilMayhew good call, switched my accepted answer
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tmh1999 · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-28 12:13:48Z

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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

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