[mythtv-users] How to tell whether MythBuntu installation is 64-bit or 32-bit?

Hika hikavdh at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 14:40:20 UTC 2014


Hoi Eric,

Wednesday, April 9, 2014, 3:30:15 PM, you wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 4:12 AM, Tim Draper <veehexx at zoho.com> wrote:
>> I'm 99% sure uname -a will only show you the currently installed OS setup.

> uname -a shows you the architecture the *kernel* was compiled for.
> This may be different than the architecture for the rest of the
> operating system.  For example, this Debian box is running a 64-bit
> kernel, with the rest of the operating system being 32-bit:

> marvin% uname -a
> Linux marvin 3.12-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.12.6-1 (2013-12-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> marvin% dpkg --print-architecture
> i386

> Eric
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You can also check if you have both /lib32 and /lib64 and both
/usr/lib32 and /usr/lib64. The simlinks /lib and /usr/lib will point
to the default.


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