Synaptic and Terminal been failing with Natty on netbook
Hello everyone,
I have been having this problem on my netbook with Natty running. Synaptic, Ubuntu Software Center and the command line Terminal all fail at installations ( if not at other things that I havent observed yet).
when I use terminal to install anything (typing, say, sudo apt-get install banshee) I get:
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/
when I open Synaptic and enter my password, immediately thereafter the error window opens:
an error occured
The following details are provided:
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
what goes wrong here? how can I solve this problem?
thank you so much for your help!!
best greets and a beautiful summer!!
Question information
- Language:
- English Edit question
- Status:
- Solved
- For:
- Ubuntu synaptic Edit question
- Assignee:
- No assignee Edit question
- Solved by:
- vfmla
- Solved:
- 2011-08-18
- Last query:
- 2011-08-18
- Last reply:
vfmla (bernuce) said : | #1 |
..and as for Ubuntu Software Center, after entering a search word, it searches permanently, without ever opening the results page.
vfmla (bernuce) said : | #2 |
this is the awesomeness of using ubuntu, once again!!
just enter right search words, and you have the solution:
http://
I entered the following in a terminal:
sudo rm /var/lib/
sudo apt-get update
and the problem was solved right then!