[vox] How to fix Google Chrome browser apt sources.list entry

[Kevin Schultz]

I saw the same thing on Debian Testing these last few days; your fix worked
perfectly. Thanks Bill!

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> wrote:

>
> Just came across this, when doing a `sudo aptitude update` on my
> Ubuntu box here at work:
>
>   W: 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)
>
> Turns out, it's because Google has deprecated the 32-bit version of Chrome.
> A bunch of Google search results for that error are out there, from the
> past
> few weeks, one of which is:
>
>
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/03/fix-failed-to-fetch-google-chrome-apt-error-ubuntu
>
> Long story short, edit your sources.list file for the Google Chrome
> browser download,
> and jam an "[arch=amd64]" in there, like so:
>
>   deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
>
> (e.g., I did this on my laptop's
> "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list" file)
>
>
> Enjoy,
>
> --
> -bill!
> Sent from my computer
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