Ubuntu: fix the annoying 'failed to fetch' google chrome binary-i386 warning

[ginggs]

If you've download Google Chrome directly from Google on an Ubuntu or Debian 64-bit system you may recently have started seeing warnings similar to the following:

Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release Unable to find expected entry ‘main/binary-i386/Packages’ in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

Skipping acquire of configured file ‘main/binary-i386/Packages’ as repository ‘http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease’ doesn’t support architecture ‘i386’

Google have dropped support for 32-bit Chrome and have now removed the files from their repository.

To get rid of the warning, edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list and change the line:

deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

to:

deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

 

[konfab]

Serves you right for not using firefox.

 

[Necropolis]

I did this on my mint install and they warning came back after a few days.

I'm just ignoring it now.

 

[halfmoonforever]

Serves you right for not using firefox.

or still being on a 32bit machine