[Bug 1529830] Re: E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/in.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_universe_i18n_Translation-en, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot 1529830 at bugs.launchpad.net
Tue Dec 29 12:26:30 UTC 2015


*** 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:
  E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with
  MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/in.archive.ubuntu
  .com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_universe_i18n_Translation-en, E:The package
  lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with
  MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/in.archive.ubuntu
  .com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_universe_i18n_Translation-en, E:The package
  lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

  i try also this code 
  sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* but its gives an error
  rm: cannot remove 'var/lib/apt/lists/partial' is a directory 

  i also update many times sudo apt-get update but every time it give same error 
  please help... i am new user of ubuntu 14.04
  thankyou!!!!!!!

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