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Manuel Jordan
Asked: 2024-05-12 22:27:37 +0800 CST

Brave web browser: How to remove the 'doesn't support architecture 'i386'' message? [duplicate]

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For Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 was installed Brave web browser according with the official instructions indicated at Release Channel Installation - Debian, Ubuntu, Mint. Therefore as follows:

sudo apt install curl

sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install brave-browser

The process was successful but in that process and for each execution of the apt update command appears:

sudo apt update
...
Hit:3 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease                                                                
...
Fetched 3,590 B in 3s (1,411 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
3 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'

Observe the latest line (split in many lines for presentational purposes):

N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository
'https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease' doesn't support
architecture 'i386'

I know it is a Note due the N: part, but being curious: How to remove the doesn't support architecture 'i386' message?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    At the /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory exists the brave-browser-release.list file where the current content is:

    deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main

    and was upgraded to:

    deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main

    Observe the addition of arch=amd64 and solved. It thanks to the following tutorial:

    See the Installing Brave on Ubuntu and Debian-based distributions section

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