DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH is not a supported variable name

[David A. Bandel]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 18:31, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hopefully you fine Ubuntu fans can help me with a miserable problem
> I'm seeing on every 11.10 box I've got.  Any time I invoke psql (the
> postgresql command line client) it spews the following warning:
> DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH is not a supported variable name at
> /usr/bin/dpkg-architecture line 214.
>
> it works fine after that, but the warning is filling up logs
> everywhere, as we use psql a lot for automated database queries inside
> of shell scripts.  After googling, I found the following bug:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgresql-common/+bug/862550
>
> however, that bug claims this is fixed in the latest update, which is
> not what I'm seeing.  I've already run 'apt-get install
> postgresql-client-common' and it reports that I already have the
> latest version.

Probably a dumb question, but you did run `apt-get update` to refresh
your repository holdings first?

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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