update-manager dependency error
Bug #1089248 reported by
Waqas Afzal
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #346386: [MASTER] Update fails with invalid package files with "Encountered a section with no Package: header".
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Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
I get a error sign from the update-manager with the update-manager asking me to paste the following message in the bug report
Could not initialize the package information
An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.
Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:
'E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/
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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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