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  • Re: Running 32 or 64 bit???

    From alain williams@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, September 15, 2026 18:00:01
    On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 10:28:26AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
    I have a Dell Latitude E6410 running Debian 9.13

    Having a "senior moment" ;{
    How do I identify whether in 32 or 64 bit mode.

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  • From Robert Heller@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, September 15, 2026 18:10:02
    uname -m

    Will yield amd64 for 64 bit Intel/AMD (x86_64) and i[3456]86 for 32-bit Intel/AMD (ix86). (On an ARM SBC you will get armv7l for 32-bit [eg RPi2] and aarch64 for 64-bit [eg RPi5].)

    cat /proc/cpuinfo

    Gives you all sorts of details about the processor.

    At Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:28:26 -0500 Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> wrote:


    I have a Dell Latitude E6410 running Debian 9.13

    Having a "senior moment" ;{
    How do I identify whether in 32 or 64 bit mode.




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