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Hello
First time on the forum.
Just tried running apt-get update and received the following error:
W: Failed to fetch http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/ubuntu/dists/virtualmin-universal/Rel... 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.
I am running Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
Thanks for your input.
Howdy,
Sorry, Joe is doing some work on the repository to fix some issues, and inadvertently generated a new issue :-)
He knows about that, and is working to fix it. Thanks for letting us know!
-Eric
Any update on this? I'm trying to do a new install and it is stopping me.
Many thanks
Very sorry! I've asked Joe to speed up the fix on this.
In a pinch, and if you have enough RAM, you could do a 64 bit install... the 64 bit repo should be unaffected.
But this should be up and running soon!
-Eric
No worries.
It was the 64 bit version I was trying.
Adding [arch=amd64] to the sources list fixes it, but the installers overwrites this change :(
Hrm, that's odd, as we weren't seeing that issue on 64 bit in our testing.
However, Joe just redid all the repository metadata -- can you try it again? (assuming you haven't already gotten things installed using the workaround you mentioned)
-Eric
Just done a fresh OS / Virtualmin install and is all looking good for me
Many thanks :)
I'm now able to check for updates as normal. I have a 64-bit system too, btw.
Ubuntu Linux 14.04.1 Webmin version 1.791 Virtualmin version 5.02.gpl Kernel and CPU Linux 3.13.0-85-generic on x86_64
Interesting that though the error message was about a file not being received, I found I could get it in browser and wget it just fine. Though it did not contain the phrase it was looking for.
Excellent, glad to hear it's working now!
-Eric