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tusherr
February 19th, 2009, 03:33 AM
When I am trying to update my Ubuntu 8.10 it shows me a error message. The message is:

E:Problem parsing dependency Pre-Depends, E:Error occurred while processing libgl1-mesa-glx (NewVersion1), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

What should I do now?

Shazaam
February 19th, 2009, 04:42 AM
Try this...
Open terminal and enter this...

gksudo nautilus
This will open nautilus as root, be careful. Drill down to /var/lib/dpkg, find the two "status" files (status and status-old) rename status to-

status.bak
then rename status.old to-

status
Close nautilus and enter this in terminal...

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
If it returns no errors, run these two in terminal...

sudo dpkg --configure -a
and

sudo apt-get install -f