Download error in package updater

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Something similar happened to me.  I did not hand-edit files, but used the
tab at   Software Updater -> Settings -> Other Software  to disable Chrome
updates.  So Chrome runs, but updates are no longer attempted.

I also notice that Google warned that they'd drop support for 14.04 in
early March.  I think that's what happened to us, and I guess that Google
has disconnected us because we're running 14.04.  If that's right, I sure
wish they'd waited until the next LTS came out.

There was once a reason why I went from Chromium to Chrome, but I no longer
remember what it was.  Maybe I should go back.  The thing I read about
support said Chromium would be unaffected.  And Chromium may have fixed
whatever beef I had with it.



On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 4:54 AM, David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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