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PeterKogler
August 14th, 2010, 06:43 AM
can't open synaptic package manager and update manager.
The error message I get is:
Could not initialize the package information

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 Depends, E:Error occurred while processing modemmanager (NewVersion1), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

I posted this problem before but the commands I was given didn't work.
The text i received was:
peter@peter-laptop:~$ sudo killall synaptic && sudo killall aptitude && sudo killall mintinstall && sudo killall software-center
[sudo] password for peter:
synaptic: no process found
peter@peter-laptop:~$ sudo killall synaptic && sudo killall aptitude && sudo killall mintinstall && sudo killall software-center
synaptic: no process found
peter@peter-laptop:~$ sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock && sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock && sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/* && sudo rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin
peter@peter-laptop:~$ sudo dpkg --purge $(dpkg -l |grep ^rc |awk '{print $2}' | tr '\012' ' ')
dpkg-query: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 6261 package 'modemmanager':
`Depends' field, syntax error after reference to package `libgudev-1.0'
dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 6261 package 'modemmanager':
`Depends' field, syntax error after reference to package `libgudev-1.0'
peter@peter-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get -f install && sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get autoclean
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Problem parsing dependency Depends
E: Error occurred while processing modemmanager (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
peter@peter-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get --fix-broken upgrade

the other command I was given gave the same result:
peter@peter-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
[sudo] password for peter:
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Problem parsing dependency Depends
E: Error occurred while processing modemmanager (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
peter@peter-laptop:~$

How can I solve this?
Thankful for all help.
Bless // Peter