Hi, On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 01:12:27PM +0100, alain williams wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 07:00:11AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > How do I find if the installed OS is 32 or 64 bit? > > $ file /bin/true
No doubt good enough for the OP who is not going to be part way through a multiarch crossgrade, but the above does only tell you if /bin/true is a 32-bit binary or not, rather than anything about the rest of the OS. $ file /bin/true /bin/true: ELF 32-bit LSB pie executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=34b7090f95e38d12cf00b77a9afb8e51822fd92d, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped $ dpkg --print-foreign-architectures amd64 $ dpkg --print-architecture i386 $ uname -m x86_64 It's a perhaps philosophical question: Is the "installed OS" 32-bit even if the kernel is 64-bit? Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
