How to check if dpkg-architecture --list has all the architectures?

Question

To install skype and dependencies on 16.04. 64bit I need to

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Via (man page):

dpkg-architecture --list

I then can check the list of architectures. What line must be in there to be sure that the first command was executed correctly?

My problem is that I cannot install Skype and I suspect the architecture was not updated correctly. I also suspect this might somehow relate to my installation of Wine.

Solution

I answer my own question because I just found out via

dpkg --print-foreign-architectures

which printed

i386

that obviously multiarch is/was enabled.

Comments

[Shobeira]

Althogh it is an old discussion, I would like to add more info in case it can help others: in order to see all available architecture to add to your machine, issue the command "dpkg-architecture --list-known"