Tuesday, September 15, 2009

[LINUX_Newbies] Re: Mint 7 x64 update problems

 

--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "MuskokaCowboy" <muskokacowboy@...> wrote:
>
> mintUpdate has been giving me the following error message for the last few days "Could not refresh the list of packages" and when I try to run Package manager I get this error:
>
> E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
> E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_universe_binary-amd64_Packages
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
>
> What can I do to fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>

I was able to get this fixed by doing the following:

Terminal:

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

which I found here:

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=29461

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