On Monday 07 March 2016 18:29:50 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 07 March 2016 17:14:40 Haines Brown wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 02:54:22PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Monday 07 March 2016 00:30:44 Haines Brown wrote: > > > > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 08:43:56PM -0300, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > > > > > Correct syntax is: > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > On 6 March 2016 at 20:10, Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 10:47:26PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > > > Hi. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 14:34:25 -0500 > > > > > > > > > > > > Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> wrote: > > > > > > > I have jessie installed on an AMD64 machine, which lacks > > > > > > > any desktop environment. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I downloaded google-chrome AMD64 deb from the Chrome > > > > > > > website and installed by running dpkg -i on it. It works > > > > > > > OK. But now I want to add flashplugin-nonfree for it or, if > > > > > > > that fails to use it for my iceweasel. In order to install > > > > > > > flashplugin-nonfree I added contrib to the sources.list. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > When I do aptitude update, the contrib it hit, but the > > > > > > > update fails > > > > ... > > > > > > Progress, but not there yet. In sources.list I have the line: > > > > > > > > deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main > > > > > > > > When I do # aptitude update, it starts with a warning: > > > > > > > > W: Duplicate sources.list entry > > > > http://dl.google.com/linus/chrome/deb stable/main amd64 Packages > > > > (/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_ > > > > \ main_binary-amd64_packages) > > > > > > > > W: You may want to update the packages lists to correct these > > > > missing files > > > > > > > > then there are hits and gets and then 100% [working]. However, this > > > > is followed by a warning and errors: > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > E: Couldn't rebuild package cache. > > > > > > > > This didn't stop me from installing the flashplugin-nonfree, but with > > > > aptitude update I still get more or less the same warnings and > > > > errors. > > > > > > > > Haines > > > > > > It sounds as though your Jessie is being identified as Wheezy. You get > > > that warning with Wheezy, even if it is 64bit Wheezy with 64bit > > > Google-Chrome. Presumably because Google hasn't written a string of > > > different error messages for the various different things it has just > > > stopped supporting. > > > > > > Why Jessie is being identified as Wheezy is another question. Is there > > > any reason why you might get identified as Ubuntu 12.04? Another of > > > the things that has just dropped off Google's cliff. > > > > > > Lisi > > > > Lisi, I have to make a confession. The machine is actually running > > devuan Jessie. That is probably the reason. > > Glad we have solved the mystery - though sadly not your problem. :-(
A potential solution to the problem would be Jessie proper, but without systemd. It seems to work rather well, in fact, from what people doing so say. I am about to cross my fingers and try it myself. Lisi