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I was trying to use sudo apt-get update to update the packages on my system but I kept encountering an error 

W: Failed to fetch http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu/dists/trusty/mongodb-org/3.4/Release  
Unable to find expected entry 'multiverse/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.
Error executing command, exiting

I looked everywhere, did whatever was suggested but nothing seems to work. I freshly created my source.list file but it was all in vain. Can anybody please suggest me something?

In my case not only a single line of sources.list if malformed but the entrie file is showing as malformed and I have already tried the methods suggested here How do I remove a malformed line from my sources.list? but it is not working..

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I tried numerous ways to solve this problem, I even regenerated my source.list multiple times but nothing worked. But later I realized that there wasnt any problem with my source.list file. The problem was that I had added another .list file(mongodb-org-3.4.list) in my /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory while trying to install mongodb which caused all this mayhem. Deleting that file solved my problem :)

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