suddenly, my package lists seem broken

[Robert P. J. Day]

  just tried to watch a video in chrome, only to be presented with
"Missing plug-in".  huh?  and when i tried to update, i got:

Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList
/var/lib/apt/lists/ca.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_natty_main_binary-amd64_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

  is there an aptitude "clean" suboption i can try to rectify this?

rday

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Robert P. J. Day                                 Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
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