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Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'xxx' doesn't support architecture 'i386'

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Getting below error message while issuing :

sudo apt-get update



Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease [95.8 kB]

Ign:2 http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/debian wheezy/mongodb-org/3.2 InRelease                                                                                                            

Ign:3 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease                                                                                                                         

Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/canonical-x/vulkan/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                                                                

Hit:5 http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/debian wheezy/mongodb-org/3.2 Release                                                                            

Hit:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease                                                  

Ign:7 http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb stable InRelease                                                     

Hit:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease                                                   

Ign:9 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu wily InRelease                                           

Hit:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/numix/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease                              

Get:12 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release [782 B]      

Hit:13 http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb stable Release                  

Ign:14 https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-wily InRelease          

Hit:15 https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-wily Release            

Get:16 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release.gpg [181 B]  

Hit:17 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu wily Release                                  

Get:20 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable/main amd64 Packages [1,191 B]

Fetched 98.0 kB in 0s (118 kB/s)                                 

Reading package lists... Done

N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'

This cuts across various releases of ubuntu

Also seeing a similar glitch after enabling Ubuntu pro on my 22.04 ... now shows

sudo apt-get update

... 

Reading package lists... Done

N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'https://esm.ubuntu.com/realtime/ubuntu jammy InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'

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I tracked down offending repo (any for Google chrome in this dir)

cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d

grep chrome * | grep -v amd64

or more generally

grep -r google  /etc/apt | grep -v amd64

Now do same as below for each repo file which matches above

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome-unstable.list



### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ###

# You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost.

deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

SOLUTION : limit to just 64 bit by introducing the [arch=amd64]

deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

similar solution to fixing bug when upgrading to Ubuntu pro

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-realtime-kernel.list  

#  original bad ... comment out next line

deb https://esm.ubuntu.com/realtime/ubuntu jammy main

#  fixed by adding [arch=amd64] to above line as per

deb [arch=amd64] https://esm.ubuntu.com/realtime/ubuntu jammy main

NOTE : If you are trying to apply this solution for another package which as a .list file containing a line similar to this :

deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloudflare-main.gpg] https://pkg.cloudflare.com/cloudflared jammy main

The solution is to add the architecture flag inside the square brackets, separated from the other arguments with a space. Here is an example :

deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloudflare-main.gpg] https://pkg.cloudflare.com/cloudflared jammy main

ROOT CAUSE : Google dropped support for 32-bit Chrome on Linux triggering an error when updating apt in 64-bit systems (with multi arch enabled) ... details here : http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/03/fix-failed-to-fetch-google-chrome-apt-error-ubuntu

To confirm you are using 64 bit ubuntu with multiarch enabled issue

dpkg --print-foreign-architectures

if it says

i386

then you have added 32 bit support, this will list your native arch ... issue

dpkg --print-architecture

if you are native 64 you will see this output so do SOLUTION shown above

amd64

Here is the command to remove multi architecture ( only if you have no 32 bit applications )

sudo dpkg --remove-architecture i386