[Bug 1178942] Re: Update Manager "Could not initialise the 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:
  Update Manager "Could not initialise the package information"

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

Bug description:
  This error appeared after a recent update to Precise Pangolin 12.04
  Description:	Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
  Release:	12.04

  Couldn't get update manager version no

  There is a red "No-entry" style icon on the task bar, clicking on it
  reveals the following error:

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  An unresolvable problem occurred while initialising the package information.

  Please report this bug for the 'update-manager' package and try to
  include the following error message:

  'E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_multiverse_i18n_Translation-en, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'
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