error occurred while RUNNING UPDATE MANAGER

[AKHOURI]

i am new to ubuntu and it was working fine till few hours ago..

update manger is showing following error message

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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:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.canonical.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_partne r_binary-i386_Packages, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

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PLZ HELP...:(

[Rubi1200]

Hi and welcome to the forums :)

Go to Applications > Accessories > Terminal and run these commands:


sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf

sudo apt-get update

Hopefully, this will sort it out.

[hansolo4949]

You should also run sudo apt-get upgrade.

[DrPeter_Kille]

I have experienced the same error with update manager on Ubuntu 10.10 and tried many of the other posted solutions but hansolo4949 fix was the only one that worked....

Many Thanks :D