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bug against update manager package'E:Encountered a section with no Package...

Asked by Manab Terang

I fail to open ubuntu software center.It shows"E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-updates_main_i18n_Translation-en, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened."

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

This problem is covered in https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+faq/1591

Usually executing these three commands in a terminal (ctrl-alt-t) solves the problem:

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists
sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists
sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists/partial

If it does not help, please carefully execute the steps as described in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PackageManagerTroubleshootingProcedure with the only excpetion that in step 6 you should not open a new question, but should continue in this current question thread.

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Manab Terang (manab00) said : 		#2

thanks