Reco, your suggestion didn't work. When I do an update I getOn Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 10:47:26PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 14:34:25 -0500
> Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> wrote:
>
> > I have jessie installed on an AMD64 machine, which lacks any desktop
> > environment.
> >
> > I downloaded google-chrome AMD64 deb from the Chrome website and
> > installed by running dpkg -i on it. It works OK. But now I want to add
> > flashplugin-nonfree for it or, if that fails to use it for my
> > iceweasel. In order to install flashplugin-nonfree I added contrib to
> > the sources.list.
> >
> > When I do aptitude update, the contrib it hit, but the update fails
> > because:
> >
> > > W: Failed to fetch
> > > http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release: Unable to
> > > find expected entry 'main/binary-i386/Packages' in file
>
> 1) Locate the line like this in a file inside /etc/apt/sources.list.d:
>
> deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/
>
> 2) Change it to:
>
> deb [amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/
>
> This warning should go away.
>
> Reco
> E: Malformed line 14 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list ([amd64] is
> not an assignment)
I did not have the dl.google.com line to start with. When I removed the
amd, and the line still malformed. When I comment the line altogether,
I get failed to fetch because there no 'main/binary-i386/Pakages in
release file. Why does it look for dl.google.com? The line is not in
sources.list.
Haines