Comment 3 for bug 226361

Michael,

Thanks. The second approach worked.
System responses in blue.

I think this may be useful to post. It may help others in this situation.

Thanks again,
Jeff

----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Vogt <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Monday, May 5, 2008 7:04:08 AM
Subject: [Bug 226361] Re: Could not initialize the package information

Thanks for your bugreport.

Could you please open a terminal and run:
$ sudo apt-get update
and see if that fixes the issue?
Get:13 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/multiverse Packages [9936B]
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/main Sources
Get:14 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/restricted Sources [937B]
Fetched 234kB in 60s (3871B/s)
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Problem parsing dependency Depends
E: Error occurred while processing evolution-plugins (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

If not, could you please try to remove the files in /var/lib/apt/lists/ for the us.archive.ubuntu.com system and try again? It might be a corrupted download.
Run:
$ sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/us*
$ sudo apt-get update
Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/restricted Sources [2120B]
Get:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe Packages [4065kB]
Get:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe Sources [1226kB]
Get:12 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/multiverse Packages [158kB]
Get:13 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/multiverse Sources [56.8kB]
Get:14 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/main Packages [260kB]
Get:15 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/restricted Packages [4263B]
Get:16 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/multiverse Packages [9936B]
Get:17 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/universe Packages [83.0kB]
Get:18 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/main Sources [71.8kB]
Get:19 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/restricted Sources [937B]
Fetched 7451kB in 1m42s (72.8kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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