Update woes in Mint 17.3 Cinnamon (64) 2.8.6

[RichardKR]

Hello all, it's been awhile but I just now got the SSD in my laptop and am back to "playing" with Linux Mint in my never ending quest to leave Windows behind.

 

For quite awhile Mint has popped up this little jewel when I try to update.

Could not download all repository indexes

 

The details box of this error message reads:

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)

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

 

My network is fine and I've changed the repositories until I'm blue in the face.

I've selected "Restore Default Setting" and still get the error. Seems like it's getting worse as it doesn't even wait until the end of the update but slaps the error up immediately.

 

Any help would be appreciated. Be gentle I'm stone stupid in Linux. Actually the older I get the more topics I become stupid about, but that's another story.

[lewmur]

Hello all, it's been awhile but I just now got the SSD in my laptop and am back to "playing" with Linux Mint in my never ending quest to leave Windows behind.

 

For quite awhile Mint has popped up this little jewel when I try to update.

Could not download all repository indexes

 

The details box of this error message reads:

Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com...lease  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i386/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

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

 

My network is fine and I've changed the repositories until I'm blue in the face.

I've selected "Restore Default Setting" and still get the error. Seems like it's getting worse as it doesn't even wait until the end of the update but slaps the error up immediately.

 

Any help would be appreciated. Be gentle I'm stone stupid in Linux. Actually the older I get the more topics I become stupid about, but that's another story.

You might want to read this.

[Hedon James]

looks like someone may have a PPA for 32-bit Google Chrome? Looks like you have a 64-bit version of Mint, so just switch to 64-bit PPA for Chrome. Paging Raymac...

[RichardKR]

Thanks! Did some rooting around (No PPA's listed) but under "Additional Repositories" the Google box was checked. Unchecked it and all seems to be fine. Thanks folks.

[securitybreach]

First remove the repo from /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

 

First add the correct repo to apt-get:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main"

 

Then add the key for the repo (verifies downloads)

wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -

 

Then resync your repos:

sudo apt-get update

 

Then install chrome:

sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

[raymac46]

This should fix it. Did for me. Change the repositories in Update Manager.

 

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/03/fix-failed-to-fetch-google-chrome-apt-error-ubuntu

[securitybreach]

This should fix it. Did for me. Change the repositories in Update Manager.

 

http://www.omgubuntu...pt-error-ubuntu

 

Nice find!

[jimg]

Here is how I fixed it on 3 systems without reinstalling Chrome.

 

Edit the software sources to

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

as suggested in the Ubuntu article referenced. This is a temporary fix.

 

Then fix the cron job that updates this source.

Edit /opt/google/chrome/cron/google-chrome

 

Change

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

to

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

This may have since been fixed by an update. I made this change a day or two after the error started and haven't seen it since.