Download error in package updater

[David Fletcher]

On Thu, 2016-03-10 at 04:38 -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> Since Google has abandoned the 32-bit binary support, why am I seeing
> this in the software update manager:
> 
> 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.
> 
> Or am I misreading it?
> 
> (Xubuntu 14.04.4 running Chrome Version 49.0.2623.87 (64-bit))

Searching Google for the error message, I found a couple of tips:-
edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
so that it now contains:-
### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ###
# You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be
lost.
deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

which got rid of the error for one cycle then, as promised, it was reset
to its original content.

Trying another tip to edit /opt/google/chrome/cron/google-chrome setting
lines 24 and 25 in the same manner as above, plus setting the first file
again, once more got rid of the error.

/opt/google/chrome/cron/google-chrome line 25 has now been modified in a
different manner and updates seem to be operating properly again for me
at least so I am assuming that Google has now addressed and corrected
this issue.

Dave