DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH is not a supported variable name

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:01 AM, David A. Bandel
<david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

yup.