t seems I have messed up all of the package installation system in ubuntu. This was the error it appeared on my system first. I was unable to open synaptic then-->Then as answered in the forum [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...tatus-155478/][1] I executed the following commands..Code:E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.After this the first error messege stopped even though synaptic was not opening.But now I m not able to uninstall any packages even if they are installed..Code:mv /var/lib/dpkg/status __/var/lib/dpkg/status_bak cp /var/backups/dpkg.status..gz __/var/lib/dpkg/ gunzip -d /var/lib/dpkg/dpkg.status..gz mv /var/lib/dpkg/dpkg.status. __/var/lib/dpkg/status apt-get update
For eg: when i try to uninstall vlc ,it showsCan anyone please help?Code:ajith@ajith-pc:~$ sudo apt-get remove vlc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package vlc is not installed, so not removed 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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