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Today when i opened Chrome i was greeted with this message:

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I logged in, and reopened Chrome, still the same error appeared.

I removed the folder Web Data in hopes that it would fix it, still nothing. I thought maybe there were some update, so i tried sudo apt-get update and got this:

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)

I reinstalled Chrome, and still this error was here.

Could this be because i keep getting the message :

This Computer will no longer recieve Google Chrome updates because this Linux system is no longer supported.

Also it keeps freezing on me so i need to Ctrl+Alt+F2 then Ctrl+Alt+F7. The freezes are not constant, but enough to annoy a person.

Can i somehow fix these errors, or do i need to move to Chromium?

I should note that i am using Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit version.

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  • Somehow, this on the Hot Network Questions.
    – cat
    Mar 6, 2016 at 17:53

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Cause

32-Bit Chrome builds have been discontinued.

Solution

32-bit system

Replace google-chrome with chromium-browser:

# aptitude purge google-chrome-stable
# aptitude install chromium-browser

(as root, indicated by # as opposed to $) or

$ sudo aptitude purge google-chrome-stable
$ sudo aptitude install chromium-browser

64-bit system

# sed -i -e 's/deb http/deb [arch=amd64] http/' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list /opt/google/chrome/cron/google-chrome
# aptitude update && aptitude upgrade

or

$ sudo sed -i -e 's/deb http/deb [arch=amd64] http/' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list /opt/google/chrome/cron/google-chrome
$ sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade

PS

Your Ubuntu is 4 years old. An upgrade might fix at least some of your problems.

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  • Thank you for your generous answer. I would gladly upgrade to 14.04, but for some reason, after i install my NVIDIA Driver, it just wont boot anymore, and i'm forced to reinstall. Maybe i'll try Mind or Fedora. Mar 6, 2016 at 17:12
  • @Xy. That's something you could ask about here on AU.
    – cat
    Mar 6, 2016 at 17:59
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    Yes i know, and i probably will next time i'm reinstalling linux, because now i have Windows 10 as dual boot and i need it atm. Or as i've said i wanted to try Mint so maybe i'll try that next time. Mar 6, 2016 at 18:07
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    Ubuntu 12.04 is still supported till April '17.
    – Pilot6
    Mar 6, 2016 at 18:30
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Google does not support Ubuntu 12.04 with Chrome.

Chromium is not supported either. It can be installed, but an old version, that does not get updates.

You can use Firefox on Ububnu 12.04, or upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04.

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  • Why are you answering instead of voting to close? The duplicate already says what you said here...
    – Braiam
    Mar 6, 2016 at 22:17
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    It's not exarly same. The new is that Chrome does not support 64-bit 12.04.
    – Pilot6
    Mar 7, 2016 at 6:12

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