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my update manager is not working

Asked by Kushagra Srivastava

when i m opening my update manager window it displays dis error message

'E:encountered a section with no package:header,
E:Problem with mergelist/var/lib/apt/lists/
in.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_distst_natty_main_binary-i386_packages,E:The package list or status file could not
be parsed or opened'

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#1

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

Please post Terminal output here:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/build-essential/+question/166635

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

You have some apt internal db packages issue...

Please try... the terminal commands below...

sudo cp -arf /var/lib/dpkg /var/lib/dpkg.backup
sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status
sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/available-old /var/lib/dpkg/available
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/updates/*
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists
sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists
sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
sudo aptitude clean
sudo aptitude autoclean
sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg --clear-avail
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo aptitude install -f
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

Hth

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