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Re: Ubuntu update failure

From Desk Rabbit <me@example.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Ubuntu update failure
Date 2016-10-14 14:28 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <ntqmh9$vs2$1@deskrabbit.motzarella.org> (permalink)
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On 14/10/2016 13:47, Octavian W. Lagrange wrote:
> Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> wrote:
>> On 13/10/2016 17:04, Desk Rabbit wrote:
>>> So our dashboard announced that that an update was available 14.04 --> 16.04
>>>
>>> It failed with "The required dependency 'apt (>= 1.0.1ubuntu2.13)' is
>>> not installed."
>>>
>>> Here we go again, a simple job made difficult, thanks Desktop Linux. It
>>> would be too simple to install the missing dependency yourself wouldn't it?
>>>
>>
>> A quick scan of the Ubuntu forums show this as a common problem with
>> lots of solutions that don't work. I was contemplating switching this
>> old PC for a Windows on a stick PC, might just bring that project forward.
>>
> 
> Did the solution of being at the latest point release of 14.04 before
> upgrading not work? 
> 

It should be up to date as I regularly update it but it looks like there
is a problem. Currently I'm:

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS"

When I run "sudo apt-get update" it fails with an error:

W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs:
1397BC53640DB551
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)

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.


So then I run sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com
--recv-keys 1397BC53640DB551

I'm left with:
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)

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.


What a fucking mess and wasting so much time. Looks like Chrome is
prevent the OS from being upgraded. WTF? Seriously WTF?

The only solution I've found so far that seems to have any chance of
working is to backup the data, wipe and install 16.04 as a fresh
install. Wow! Imagine if that was a Windows resolution, the Linux loons
would have a field day but when it's a Linux solution, that's OK.

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Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-13 17:04 +0100
  Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-13 17:15 +0100
    Re: Ubuntu update failure "Octavian W. Lagrange" <olagrang@perch.invalid> - 2016-10-14 12:47 +0000
      Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-14 14:28 +0100
        Re: Ubuntu update failure Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-14 13:33 +0000
          Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-14 14:49 +0100
            Re: Ubuntu update failure Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-14 13:53 +0000
              Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-17 21:34 +0100
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-17 21:54 +0000
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-18 09:45 +0100
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-18 12:18 +0000
                Re: Ubuntu update failure deplorable owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-10-18 13:06 +0000
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-18 14:29 +0100
                Re: Ubuntu update failure deplorable owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-10-18 15:29 +0000
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-19 12:53 +0100
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-18 14:31 +0100
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-18 16:27 +0000
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-18 18:38 +0200
                Re: Ubuntu update failure chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-18 12:49 -0500
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-10-18 19:14 -0400
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-19 00:18 +0000
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-19 13:07 +0100
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-19 13:02 +0100
                Re: Ubuntu update failure ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2016-10-19 17:24 +0000
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-19 19:07 +0000
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-19 13:01 +0100
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-19 14:21 +0200
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-19 14:25 +0100
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2016-10-19 10:56 -0400
                Re: Ubuntu update failure Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-19 11:20 -0400
  Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-14 12:18 +0100
    Re: Ubuntu update failure Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-14 13:38 +0200
      Re: Ubuntu update failure Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-14 12:28 +0000
      Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-14 14:16 +0100
        Re: Ubuntu update failure Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-14 13:20 +0000
    Re: Ubuntu update failure Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-14 12:26 +0000
  Re: Ubuntu update failure fr314159@gmail.com - 2016-10-14 06:37 -0700
    Re: Ubuntu update failure Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-14 13:39 +0000
      Re: Ubuntu update failure Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2016-10-14 14:47 +0100
  Re: Ubuntu update failure Marti van Lin <ml2mst@dontevenbother.invalid> - 2016-10-17 00:01 +0200

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