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Error in the Debian/Ubuntu Linux repository as of March 2nd

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Error in the Debian/Ubuntu Linux repository as of March 2nd Dakiraun 03/03/16 04:53
For Google/Chrome developers and maintenance staff: As of yesterday I've been getting this message on my Linux Mint 17.3 systems:

       "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)"

My only repository entry under /apt/sources is for the main repo itself, so something's messed up in the i386 branch.  There doesn't seem to be a way to contact Google directly, so hopefully someone here can see this and fix it up.
Re: Error in the Debian/Ubuntu Linux repository as of March 2nd nicomachus__ 03/03/16 08:50
Experiencing the same error here, running Ubuntu 15.10. Also on a machine running Ubuntu 14.04. Both machines have google-chrome-stable 64bit installed from the .deb, but I get the same exact error when running apt-get update.

Several others in online forums and IRC are reporting the same error, across many different distros and versions. Definitely seems to be something on the Google end.

EDIT: Temporary solution is to change your listings in sources.list.d/ to add [arch=amd64], so that it reads: 

deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
Re: Error in the Debian/Ubuntu Linux repository as of March 2nd JVApen 05/03/16 04:35
Hi,

chrome no longer supports 32bit, so I guess something went wrong when removing it.
I've logged a bug for this: crbug.com/592209, please star it to get updated

JVApen
Re: Error in the Debian/Ubuntu Linux repository as of March 2nd Dakiraun 05/03/16 07:40
I have found a work-around for it.  The issue exists on the i386 / 32 bit portion of the repo tree, so if you're running a 64 bit version of Debian-based Linux, you can just tell it to only look for 64 bit binaries by telling to to switch.  WebUpd8 has an article on the fix here:

http://www.webupd8.org/2016/03/fix-failed-to-fetch-google-chrome_3.html

TL:DNR, just open a terminal and use these commands:

sudo sed -i -e 's/deb http/deb [arch=amd64] http/' "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list"
sudo sed -i -e 's/deb http/deb [arch=amd64] http/' "/opt/google/chrome/cron/google-chrome"
Re: Error in the Debian/Ubuntu Linux repository as of March 2nd kmb42vt 05/03/16 08:49
The work around seems to have worked for me just fine. Thanks for posting a TL:DR version and submitting a bug report (I added my own  comment to it).