2.060 deb package on Linux Mint 13

[Graham Fawcett]

On Monday, 24 September 2012 at 17:14:25 UTC, 1100110 wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:49:48 -0500, Jason Spencer 
> <spencer8 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sunday, 23 September 2012 at 18:38:01 UTC, Jordi Sayol 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> first of all, upgrade your system
>>
>> Those are minor and green upgrades, not pertinent to dmd 
>> install.
>>
>>> Why did you try to install 32-bit dmd deb package on a 64-bit 
>>> system?
>>
>> Guess I missed that chapter in the owner's manual.  I assumed 
>> amd was specific to amd architecture.  Yay!, tribal knowledge!
>
> Quick, which architecture is your computer running!?
>
> amd64, armel, kfreebsd-i386, kfreebsd-amd64, i386, ia64, mips, 
> mipsel, powerpc, sparc
>
> Took me 30 minutes the first time I decided to try debian to 
> figure it out...
> Mostly because I kept associating amd64 with AMD and ia64 with 
> INTEL.

For future reference:

    dkpg --print-architecture

...will confirm the architecture that dpkg expects on your system.

Best,
Graham