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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.

Nikola Atanasov
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2 Answers2

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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.

sds
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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.

Pilot6
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