E: Problem parsing dependency Recommends

[clooless001]

I was installing sun java with:

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-bin sun-java6-plugin

And my power went off (Talk about bad timing)

Now whenever I open synaptic manager or try to install anything through terminal I get:

E: Problem parsing dependency Recommends
E: Error occurred while processing collectd (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_universe_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

[clooless001]

Oh, and if I try to do

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-bin sun-java6-plugin

I get

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

EDIT: I realised i did that while having synaptic open (Silly me!)
The message i get back with synaptic closed it:

Reading package lists... Error!
E: Problem parsing dependency Recommends
E: Error occurred while processing collectd (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_universe_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

[clooless001]

I just tried opening
/var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_universe_ binary-i386_Packages

And it can't figure out the coding....

Could not open the file /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.ar…erse_binary-i386_Packages using the Western (ISO-8859-15) character encoding.

[clooless001]

I fixed it!

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_universe_binary-i386_Packages

Hope i can help others with this!