To each his own. It may not have been Chrome but something caused the error
messages below.
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E: Malformed line 54 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)
E: The list of sources could not be read.
Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
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Failed to check for installed and available applications

This is a major failure of your software management system. Please check for
broken packages with synaptic, check the file permissions and correctness of the
file '/etc/apt/sources.list' and reload the software information with: 'sudo
apt-get update' and 'sudo apt-get install -f'.
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I haven't A clue how to fix it.