Issue
I install nodejs using NodeSource repository, I followed instruction mention on deb.nodesource.com (on home page), after installing whenever I am running sudo apt update I am getting this warning at the end of output, and nodejs is working fine, So my questions is why it is showing this error and how could I fix this issue?
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'https://deb.nodesource.com/node_20.x nodistro InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'
My system's informations are: OS: Ubuntu 22.04 Processor: AMD A6-7310 with Readon R4 Graphics
I searched for solutions and read other similar question's answeres but they were specific about those errors.
Solution
The warning itself is fairly harmless. It's just saying that the node repo doesn't have any 32 bit packages. I suspect at some point 32 bit support was added to this Ubuntu install. You can check by looking at:
# dpkg --print-architecture
amd64
and
# dpkg --print-foreign-architectures
and see if any multi-arch arches are set. You can force any given repo to only care about one architecture by tweaking the deb line. So in your case edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list to read:
deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg,arch=amd64] https://deb.nodesource.com/node_20.x nodistro main
Answered By - stsquad Answer Checked By - Senaida (WPSolving Volunteer)