[Bug 1597421] Re: An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information

[Brian Murray]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make
Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does
not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to
a question in the support tracker. We understand the difficulties you
are facing, but it is better to raise problems you are having in the
support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are
uncertain if they are bugs. You can also find help posting your problem
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** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Converted to question:
   https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+question/300872

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Title:
  An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package
  information

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and
  include the following error message:

  E:Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu
  .com_ubuntu_dists_xenial-updates_multiverse_i18n_Translation-en - open
  (13: Permission denied), E:Could not open file
  /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_xenial-
  updates_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages - open (13: Permission
  denied), E:Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu
  .com_ubuntu_dists_xenial-updates_multiverse_binary-amd64_Packages -
  open (13: Permission denied).

  
  I wanted to update ubuntu but due to this error, I can't. There is a red round sign with a minus sign which I want to get rid of.

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