Am 06.12.2015 um 22:47 schrieb Klaus Jantzen: > On 12/05/2015 08:56 PM, Myscelus wrote: >> On 12/05/2015 08:55 PM, Klaus Jantzen wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> due to a typing error - I wanted to say 'dpkg --add-architecture i386' >>> but wrote 'i368' - >>> I get the following error messages when running apt-get update: >>> >>> <msgs> >>> ... >>> >>> W: Failed to fetch >>> http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/vivid/Release >>> Unable to find expected entry 'contrib/binary-i368/Packages' in Release >>> file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) >>> >>> W: Failed to fetch >>> http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/debian/dists/wheezy-updates/Release >>> Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i368/Packages' in Release >>> file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file) >>> >>> W: Failed to fetch >>> http://security.debian.org/dists/wheezy/updates/Release Unable to find >>> expected entry 'main/binary-i368/Packages' in Release file (Wrong >>> sources.list entry or malformed file) >>> >>> ... >>> </msgs> >>> >>> Where is the information for these erroneous requests stored? >>> How can I remove it? >> >> dpkg --remove-architecture i368 >> >> > > That seems to have done something. > At least the messages shown above disappeared when I said > > dpkg --remove-architecture i368 > apt-get update > > But I cannot add the correct architecture: > > dpkg --add-architecture i386 > apt-get update > dpkg --print-architecture > > just shows me 'amd64'. > 'apt-get update' seems to have found some i386 packages > but the second architecture is not printed out. > >
That output is correct. "dpkg --print-architecture" shows the default architecture for which packages are installed. Try dpkg --print-foreign-architectures That should output "i386" Matthias
