dump-multiarch-hints(1)

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✨ dump-multiarch-hints ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the dump-multiarch-hints page 💖 this one lives in the User Commands section, and it is exactly as chill as it sounds.

🌸 NAME 🌸

dump-multiarch-hints — download and print multiarch hints 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

dump-multiarch-hints

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe. no flags required, no arguments, no drama 💅

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the tea 🍓: dump-multiarch-hints goes and downloads the Debian multi-arch hints from the official source and then prints them out in a human-readable format. iconic behavior, honestly.

What is it for? It's primarily a debugging tool — you use it when you wanna inspect the hints that would be applied by apply-multiarch-hints(1). Think of it as the little spyglass 🔍 that lets you peek at the hints before they get applied. bestie detective mode, activated.

If you want the full lore on what multi-arch hints even are, the manpage points you to:

https://wiki.debian.org/MultiArch/Hints

go read it, it's giving educational 🧚

✨ optional arguments ✨

  • -h, --help — show this help message and exit. classic. always there for you 🫶
  • -V, --version — show program's version number and exit. slay, know your version 💅

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@debian.org> — thank you legend 🙏

ngl there are no warnings here, no dangerous flags, no deprecations. it just downloads hints and prints them. zero stress, all vibes 💖

okay that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 💅✨ this little cutie is dump-multiarch-hints, version dated February 2026, and that's the wrap — mwah 🎀🦋💖

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