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

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
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.

2 Answers

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

$ 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