How to remove configuration key in `dpkg' configuration files

Question

I am seeing this when I open the terminal.

Unknown configuration key `foreign-architecture' found in your `dpkg'
configuration files.  This warning will become a hard error at a later
date, so please remove the offending configuration options and replace
them with `dpkg --add-architecture' invocations at the command line.

How to fix this?

Possible duplicate of How can I restore configuration files? — Daniel, Feb 27 '16 at 16:43
What's the output of grep -lFe foreign-architecture -R /etc/dpkg? Please post the content of the matching files. — David Foerster, Feb 28 '16 at 09:06

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 27 '16 at 17:42

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I was able to fix the issue:

Step 1: Open the dpkq multiarch file

sudo vi /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch

Step 2: Remove the foreign-architecture amd64 line and save the file

answered Feb 27 '16 at 17:42

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How to remove configuration key in `dpkg' configuration files

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