[xubuntu-users] Problem After App Upgrade

Elizabeth Krumbach lyz at ubuntu.com
Sat Oct 6 04:36:07 UTC 2012


On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Paul Donlan <padlan1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> One one of my two laptops which runs Xubuntu 12.04, after upgrading the
> latest applications, I got this message:
>
> Failed to load the package list
> This is a serious problem. Try again later. If this problem appears again,
> please report an error to the developers.
> E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList
> /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_universe_binary-i386_Packages,
> E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

What did you type that created this output?

If you haven't already, you might want to run "sudo apt-get update" to
see if you can download the Packages files again.

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Elizabeth Krumbach // Lyz // pleia2
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