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Asked by Scott Barras on 2011-09-03

I have just installed Ubuntu. When I search for installed softaware or try to available software all i get is the wait/searching icon. How do I fix this?

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Status:: Solved

For:: Ubuntu software-center Edit question

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Solved by:: mycae

Solved:: 2011-09-05

Last query:: 2011-09-05

Last reply:: 2011-09-04

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mycae (mycae) said on 2011-09-03:

Try using the "synaptic" program -- its more reliable, but is a little bit more advanced.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto

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Scott Barras (sjbarras) said on 2011-09-04:

Hi, I gave that a go but I came up with the following error in the Synaptic package manager as soon as I opened it:

E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_natty_main_binary-amd64_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

So I guess I am back to square 1, or worse?

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Scott Barras (sjbarras) said on 2011-09-04:

I just tried using the update manager, and it said:

Could not initialize the package information

An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:

'E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_natty_main_binary-amd64_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'