On 06/08/2018 12:32 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
Do not attempt to perform a release upgrade while your repository is in a
broken state.
In fact, do not attempt to perform any sort of installation or upgrade
until you resolve the error with Google Earth. You will break your system
to the point where the only solution is to reinstall from scratch.
I've seen this error countless times since 8.04. This error literally
predates Mint and end users have a tendency to break their installs over
some bad error reporting. Resolve the error for apt-get update before
attempting any further steps.
I went through the process I followed earlier, trying to fix the no
public key issue. That seems to have worked, but it brought up a
different one:
N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as
repository 'http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable InRelease'
doesn't support architecture 'i386'
I searched for that error message and found out that it's a known
problem, with a solution that has to be done regularly because the fix
is to a file that is automatically generated, and the fix is
overwritten. One solution is a cron job that "fixes" the file every day
or something. But another would be to skip getting a Google Earth update
for now. But, I don't find a place to do that in Software Updater.
In Synaptic, Software & Updates, Other Software, I unchecked
http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/ stable main
I reran sudo apt-get update --fix-missing, and the error message was not
there. So I reran Software Updater, and it finished successfully.
I'm expecting to move over to 18.04 before too long, so I'm not all that
concerned about a non-updated version of Google Earth, which I only use
occasionally.
Thanks to all for the various pointers, which when combined, solved my
problem.
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
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