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Re: apt-get error messages

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Am 06.12.2015 um 22:47 schrieb Klaus Jantzen:
> On 12/05/2015 08:56 PM, Myscelus wrote:
>> On 12/05/2015 08:55 PM, Klaus Jantzen wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> due to a typing error - I wanted to say 'dpkg --add-architecture i386'
>>> but wrote 'i368' -
>>> I get the following error messages when running apt-get update:
>>>
>>> <msgs>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> W: Failed to fetch
>>> http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/vivid/Release
>>> Unable to find expected entry 'contrib/binary-i368/Packages' in Release
>>> file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
>>>
>>> W: Failed to fetch
>>> http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/debian/dists/wheezy-updates/Release
>>> Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i368/Packages' in Release
>>> file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
>>>
>>> W: Failed to fetch
>>> http://security.debian.org/dists/wheezy/updates/Release  Unable to find
>>> expected entry 'main/binary-i368/Packages' in Release file (Wrong
>>> sources.list entry or malformed file)
>>>
>>> ...
>>> </msgs>
>>>
>>> Where is the information for these erroneous requests stored?
>>> How can I remove it?
>>
>> dpkg --remove-architecture i368
>>
>>
> 
> That seems to have done something.
> At least the messages shown above disappeared when I said
> 
> dpkg --remove-architecture i368
> apt-get update
> 
> But I cannot add the correct architecture:
> 
> dpkg --add-architecture i386
> apt-get update
> dpkg --print-architecture
> 
> just shows me 'amd64'.
> 'apt-get update' seems to have found some i386 packages
> but the second architecture is not printed out.
> 
> 


That output is correct. "dpkg --print-architecture" shows the default architecture for which packages are installed.

Try 
dpkg --print-foreign-architectures
That should output "i386"

Matthias

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apt-get error messages Klaus Jantzen <k.d.jantzen@mailbox.org> - 2015-12-05 20:00 +0100
  Re: apt-get error messages Myscelus <myscelus@mail.bg> - 2015-12-05 21:10 +0100
    Re: apt-get error messages Klaus Jantzen <k.d.jantzen@mailbox.org> - 2015-12-06 22:50 +0100
      Re: apt-get error messages Matthias Bodenbinder <matthias@bodenbinder.de> - 2015-12-07 06:50 +0100
        Re: apt-get error messages Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-12-08 14:50 +0100
          Re: apt-get error messages Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2015-12-08 15:10 +0100
            Re: apt-get error messages Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-12-11 13:10 +0100
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              Re: apt-get error messages Lee Fuller <leefuller23@gmail.com> - 2015-12-11 19:40 +0100
              Re: apt-get error messages Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-12-12 10:30 +0100
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