Problem with update manager

[DorianOriental]

Hello there!
I've got a problem with the update manager, which doesn't open.
When I try to launch it the following error show up:


E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_quantal_main_i18n_ Translation-en, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

Can anybody give me a little help with that?
Thanks :)

[dino99]

Update-manager is not the best piece of cake; use synaptic instead, or apt-get

sudo apt-get install synaptic
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

[DorianOriental]

The first one gives me this:

Lettura elenco dei pacchetti... ErroreE: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_quantal_main_i18n_ Translation-en
E: L'elenco dei pacchetti o il file di stato non può essere letto o aperto.

I'm sorry for the language, it's italian.
I hope it doesn't create any problem!

[plucky]

The first one gives me this:

Lettura elenco dei pacchetti... ErroreE: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_quantal_main_i18n_ Translation-en
E: L'elenco dei pacchetti o il file di stato non può essere letto o aperto.

I'm sorry for the language, it's italian.
I hope it doesn't create any problem!

Try from a terminal
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf then run
sudo apt-get update to reload the list files.

Good Luck