Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i386/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

Question

I was trying to upgrade VLC player on my Ubuntu 14.04. Below are the commands I\'ve executed. (https://askubuntu.com/questions/105587/how-to-update-vlc-to-the-latest-version) Bu

Answer 1

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list

replace:

deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

with:

deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

Answer 2

The warning that you see is caused by Google's dropping of support for 32-bit Google Chrome for Linux. You can fix that by looking at https://askubuntu.com/questions/724093/no-more-updates-for-google-chrome-apt-get-update-error.

However, the aforementioned warning you see is entirely unrelated to your attempt to upgrade vlc. Looking at https://launchpad.net/~videolan/+archive/ubuntu/stable-daily, the PPA you added does not have an installation candidate for Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr). If you want to use this PPA, you are going to have to upgrade to 15.10, 16.04 or 16.10. I would recommend 16.04 because 16.04 is an LTS while 15.10 will reach end-of-life in a couple of weeks and 16.10 is a developmental version that may be too unstable for you.

If you want to keep using 14.04, then you can simply remove the PPA and just install vlc from the Ubuntu repositories, but this version will be outdated relative to what is available to in the PPA.