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Package manager broken.

Asked by Nick

My package manager broke the other day. I now just have a red stop sign on the task bar. The error upon starting the package manager is:

E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty-updates_restricted_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

Any help gratefully received by this ubuntu novice.

Cheers,
Nick

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Best Soul-Sing (soulzing) said : 		#1

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf
sudo apt-get update

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Nick (njd2) said : 		#2

thanks, solved!