Fix “Failed To Fetch” Apt error Howto

Google announced plans to discontinue 32-bit Google Chrome for Linux and it has. On some 64bit Ubuntu based systems (Mint/Kubuntu/Xubuntu,..), during update process you may notice the next error:

“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)”

To fix this error you’ll need to make some changes in google-chrome.list

Open /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list file and add [arch=amd64] before “http”

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

Do not edit or replace any other text in this file. Save the changes and refresh your package list with

sudo apt-get update

The “failed to fetch” APT error should no longer appear

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