[Bug 1145212] Re: Cannot update available package information

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 346386 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346386

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better.  Reviewing your bug report it seems that you are
experiencing bug 346386.  This issue happens when you have tried to
update your package information when you are a network that didn't
return the right files.  This issue can be cleaned up by using the
following commands in a terminal:

1.) sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/*
2.) sudo apt-get update

Thanks and good luck!

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** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 346386
   [MASTER] Update fails with invalid package files with "Encountered a section with no Package: header"

** Tags added: bot-comment

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Title:
  Cannot update available package information

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  During update-manager auto run, the following system error promtp
  shows, telling me to report a bug here enclosing the following
  message:

  E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with
  MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/it.archive.ubuntu
  .com_ubuntu_dists_precise-updates_main_i18n_Translation-en, E:L'elenco
  dei pacchetti o il file di stato non può essere letto o aperto

  Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS

  sudo apt-cache policy update-manager
  [sudo] password for adaca: 
  E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
  E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/it.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-updates_main_i18n_Translation-en
  E: L'elenco dei pacchetti o il file di stato non può essere letto o aperto.

  so I cannot fetch the package version!

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