[PLUG] Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Update Failure

[Dick Steffens]

On 06/08/2018 08:05 AM, Ben Koenig wrote:
> The only logging for this error is in the update command itself. When
> 'apt-get update' runs it does a quick network check for all registered
> repositories, official and unofficial. The error you are looking for is
> located in the output of apt-get update.
>
> This output goes straight to terminal, or for GUI update apps you often
> have a little dropdown arrow that says "show more".  If you want, you can
> do the following:
>
> - Run 'sudo apt-get update' from a terminal
> - Wait for it to run, it will dump a bunch of messages to the screen
> - When it completes, post the output of this command on this mailing list.

rsteff at ENU-2:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for rsteff:
Ign:1 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu wily InRelease
Hit:2 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu wily Release
Ign:3 http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable InRelease
Hit:4 http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial InRelease
Get:5 http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable Release [1,182 B]
Hit:7 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
Get:8 http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable Release.gpg [819 B]
Get:9 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [107 kB]
Hit:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 
kB]
Ign:8 http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable Release.gpg
Hit:12 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu xenial 
InRelease
Hit:14 http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable/main amd64 Packages
Ign:14 http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable/main amd64 Packages
Hit:14 http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable/main amd64 Packages
Get:15 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease 
[107 kB]
Hit:16 http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:17 http://ppa.launchpad.net/pipelight/stable/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:18 http://ppa.launchpad.net/rolfbensch/sane-git/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:19 http://ppa.launchpad.net/rolfbensch/sane-release/ubuntu xenial 
InRelease
Hit:20 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate-dev/welcome/ubuntu xenial 
InRelease
Fetched 325 kB in 2s (147 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable Release: The 
following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not 
available: NO_PUBKEY 1397BC53640DB551
W: The repository 'http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable Release' 
is not signed.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore 
potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user 
configuration details.
N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as 
repository 'http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable InRelease' 
doesn't support architecture 'i386'
rsteff at ENU-2:~$

Looks like Google Earth is the culprit. Later today, after finishing my 
work, I'll pursue this.

Thanks for the recommendation.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens