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update-manager package

Update Manager Unresolveable while initializing the package information

Bug #792774 reported by Mostafa A. Hamid on 2011-06-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #346386: [MASTER] Update fails with invalid package files with "Encountered a section with no Package: header". Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

'E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/extras.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_natty_main_i18n_Translation-en, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.'

This error message is what I have encountered while updating the operating system.
Thank you for your interest in reading.

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ladskateclothing@gmail.com (ladskateclothing) wrote on 2011-06-08:

i Got This too But i already have 11.04 and just wanted to see if there were any updates plus i think its affecting my synaptic manager cause i get the same thing for that ugh this blows! ):

Ara Pulido (ara) on 2011-06-09

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete
status:	Incomplete → New
status:	New → Incomplete
status:	Incomplete → New

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2011-06-15:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #346386, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.
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