Tagged as: apt google-chrome linux

Recently, Google deprecated the i386 build of Google Chrome, which means that apt not produces an error when you try to 'apt-get update'.

This is the error that you may have encountered:

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)

This is because Google has deprecated 32-bit Chrome installations. Luckily, it's easy to fix the error. Just run this command in your terminal:

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

Modify this line:

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

To read this instead:

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

Then you can update without the error occurring again.