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tusherr
March 8th, 2009, 03:39 PM
Update icon show a red icon and a error message like this

An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:

'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

Partyboi2
March 8th, 2009, 11:58 PM
Open a terminal (Applications>Accessories>Terminal) and change the status file over.

cd /var/lib/dpkg
mv status status-bad
cp status-old status