Package Manager Error

[perkanator]

Hello I am getting the following error when running apt-get update:


E: Problem parsing dependency 21
E: Error occurred while processing znc-perl (NewVersion2)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_bionic-updates_universe_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Jason

[Skaperen]

exactly what commands did you do to get this? did it include an update? please put the commands in code tags ending with [/code] and beginning with [code].

[perkanator]

Yeah I am not sure see below:


$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88.7 kB]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB]
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB]
Fetched 252 kB in 1s (274 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Problem parsing dependency 21
E: Error occurred while processing znc-perl (NewVersion2)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_bionic-updates_universe_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

[Bashing-om]

perkanator; Hello -



E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.


MergeLists are a working tool of apt, part of the way it keeps track of which packages are in which repositories. It's the gears of a text-based database that apt relies upon. When corrupted, they can be safely deleted. Apt will recreate them during the next apt update.

Try:


sudo rm -fr /var/lib/apt/lists
sudo mkdir -pv /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
sudo apt update




my bit to try and help

[perkanator]

Bashing-om,

That seemed to work, thanks!!!!

[Bashing-om]

perkanator; Great :P



happy trails to you