I use PureOS, which is derived from Debian. Debian recently had a new release, so I was interested in learning how they handled it. Apparently not too well.
I had already added the following line to my `/etc/apt/sources.list` because I needed the GNU manuals:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing non-free
That’s why I wasn’t surprised when `apt` told me that something or other had changed from testing to something else. Whatever, I accept. For the purposes of this blog post I commented that line.
But something still isn’t right:
$ sudo apt update Hit:1 https://repo.puri.sm/pureos green InRelease Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done All packages are up to date. N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'https://repo.puri.sm/pureos green InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'
I wonder what that means.
#PureOS #Debian #Administration
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The problem remains unsolved. I deleted `/etc/apt/sources.list` and recreated it using *Software & Updates*.
New content:
deb https://repo.pureos.net/pureos/ green main
I used to have a line saying `puri.sm` instead of `pureos.net` but it appears to make no difference:
$ sudo apt update Hit:1 https://repo.pureos.net/pureos green InRelease Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done All packages are up to date. N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'https://repo.pureos.net/pureos green InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'
– Alex Schroeder 2019-07-27 20:53 UTC
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What architecture am I using?
$ dpkg --print-architecture amd64 $ dpkg --print-foreign-architectures i386
Perhaps that is the problem? I think I don’t have any `i386` stuff installed:
$ dpkg --get-selections | grep :i386
No output.
Let’s remove it!
$ sudo dpkg --remove-architecture i386
Problem solved!
$ sudo apt update Hit:1 https://repo.pureos.net/pureos green InRelease Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done All packages are up to date.
– Alex Schroeder 2019-07-27 20:59 UTC
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Add this to the Purism forum, just in case you find more info in the replies over there.
– Alex Schroeder 2019-07-27 21:05 UTC
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For future reference, you shouldn’t have a line like
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing non-free
http://http.us.debian.org/debian
because you might accidently upgrade to the next testing release when you don’t want to. Instead you should refer to the releases by codename, ie:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian buster non-free
http://http.us.debian.org/debian
That way, you can upgrade to the next release at your own discretion.
– matthew 2019-07-30 05:38 UTC
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Thanks!
– Alex Schroeder 2019-07-30 06:02 UTC
