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Re: Why does dpkg think my pentium computer is an AMD?



On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 03:44:36PM -0800, Peter Stoddard wrote:
> Someone else installed this os, and I don't know how they got dpkg to think it 
> was an amd system.  Is there any way to get it dpkg to report the proper 
> architecture so I can install the pine package?

Dpkg *is* reporting the proper architecture.  You have an AMD64 system
installed on this box.  I suppose you're lucky that your actual processor
supports EMT64.

Typical cluelessness on the part of the original installer.  I imagine a
re-install is warranted if you want to go back to i386...

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