Having been an avid IE non-user as with most around the world (if you for some arbitrary reason do not believe… check here for the current and past statistics on the topic) I use Firefox and Chrome for anything unless the design is sufficiently IE focused to make using elsewhere a nightmare.
Having finally managing to move my work machine to a Linux base (Debian to be exact) I have been using Iceweasel (the Debian fork of Firefox) but I still find that I have reasons to use both Iceweasel and Chrome so I added Chrome to the repositories so that I can keep up to date with aptitude alone and not needing to manually download updates after setting up. I do this as much as possible of course. FYI, if you’re wanting to add chrome yourself, check here. The command line installation is nice and easy:
wget -q -O - https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
The one irritation recently was just that I had added x86 architecture for certain tool support and now when running apt-get update I started receiving:
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 of course being a far greater irritation than it needed to be, it was luckily a very easy fix. Google have just removed the 32bit support to the repository so all we need to do is tell apt to only look for 64bit data:
As announced back in December, Google has stopped supporting Google Chrome on 32-bit Linux starting this month. Users running a 32bit Linux distribution are advised to stop using Google Chrome because while it will continue to work, it will no longer receive any updates (including no security fixes).
Essentially, just update your sources list with [arch=amd64] which will leave your repository for chrome in the sources.list file as follows:
deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
So for those doing this for the first time, use a text editor (I use Gedit when feeling lazy) and find where the rep line is. you should first check /etc/apt/sources.list or if you did not add the repository manually then likely /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list and so use the following to edit and update the line as mentioned above:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
Now your apt updates are clean once more. Enjoy!
