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I have an exclamation point saying "The update information is outdated" which has appeared today (2016-10-03), and when I ran the update manager I got an error message that it failed to download information. (By the way, there is nothing wrong with my internet connection.)

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The command: sudo apt-get update gives me this error message after an attempt to update:

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)

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Google Chrome seems to be giving me a hard time?

jwodder
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Elysium
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Source of this solution:

sudo sed -i -e 's/deb http/deb [arch=amd64] http/' "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list"

then update with

sudo apt-get update

and everything will be fine.

Long explanation: Google Chrome packages put automatically their repository file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/.
Since the beginning of March the 32 bit (i386) repository has been disabled - see this question for more details.
Unfortunately they forgot to update the information on their source file!
The problem was then solved since version 49.0.2623.87 of Google Chrome, but for previous versions the above procedure is a workaround to this problem.

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dadexix86
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  • Yes good call, fixed my crome - that dumped the error yesterday, but I didn't manage to report this error before this post – Ken Mollerup Mar 10 '16 at 10:55
  • yep. Works like a charm. Cheers. – Elysium Mar 10 '16 at 13:46
  • Great to hear! :) – dadexix86 Mar 10 '16 at 15:23
  • is this related to this http://askubuntu.com/questions/743912/ubuntu-chrome-and-firefox-with-untrusted-certification-authorities ? – lapisdecor Mar 10 '16 at 21:35
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    @lapsidecor no, this is a different problem. – dadexix86 Mar 10 '16 at 21:38
  • @dadexix86 thank you, this works also for me, but the problem appears again and again every week. Is there a way to fix it permanently? – WoDoSc Jul 22 '16 at 10:05
  • @WoDoSc which version of Google Chrome are you using? And which version of Ubuntu? – dadexix86 Jul 22 '16 at 10:08
  • @dadexix86 52.0.2743.82 (64-bit), but actually I just noticed that the problem is not about Chrome but about Google Webdesigner. It was exactly the same problem with exactly the same fix (to re-apply every X days). Since I don't need the Webdesigner I just removed that package, but it is wired that at every update, the problem re-appears. – WoDoSc Jul 22 '16 at 10:13
  • Remove all the google repositories and software, and then add them again one by one until you find the culprit. – dadexix86 Jul 22 '16 at 10:16
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For me on Ubuntu 14.04.3 I also had to update:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list

Which had:

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

with:

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

OR just terminal:

sudo sed -i -e 's/deb http/deb [arch=amd64] http/' "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list"

Same issue with google-webdesigner

sudo sed -i -e 's/deb http/deb [arch=amd64] http/' "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-webdesigner.list"

NEW FILE:
$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-webdesigner.list deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/webdesigner/deb/ stable main


PREVIOUS VERSION:
$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-webdesigner.list.save deb http://dl.google.com/linux/webdesigner/deb/ stable main

& now an new error:
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_main_binary-amd64_Packages) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

Just remove:
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list

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