update manager and apt-get fail after Hardy upgrade

[calodar]

I tried to run the Hardy upgrade, and it finished fetching files and installing them, but then said that due to an error it would not proceed with the upgrade and that my computer would be restored back to the way it was. But upon restart the computer I was running hardy with no apparent problems until today when updat manager and apt-get both give me this error:

Reading package lists... Error!
E: Problem parsing dependency Depends
E: Error occurred while processing libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_universe_ binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

How can I fix this?

[El King]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=140920
maybe this cud help

[calodar]

Sadly, I can't even attempt some of those tips because apt-get won't even run due to the above error. The stuff I could do didn't help anything.

[El King]

Maybe the cache is small, u can try to fix it with this:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/apt.conf

add the following line

APT::Cache-Limit "8388608";

Also try that:

sudo apt-get -f install

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update

If above fails, try this

sudo cd /var/lib/dpkg
sudo cp status status-bkp
sudo cp status-old status