Cannot update available package information
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
During update-manager auto run, the following system error promtp shows, telling me to report a bug here enclosing the following message:
E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
sudo apt-cache policy update-manager
[sudo] password for adaca:
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/
E: L'elenco dei pacchetti o il file di stato non può essere letto o aperto.
so I cannot fetch the package version!
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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