UPDATE MANAGER is not working

[anupdada]

UPDATE MANAGER is not working
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shows this message...

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/in.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_multive rse_i18n_Translation-en, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

[fantab]

Try the following:


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