Reinstalling Lubuntu 14.04 because 15.0 would not install at all

[Tony]

Had problems with Lubuntu 14 update, decided to format and try Lubuntu 15 small version, install failed 25% through, tried 3 taimes and gave up.

Re- installing Lubuntu 14 and got this problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubiquity 2.18.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.340
Date: Sat Feb 13 10:44:59 2016
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140416)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Feb 13 10:38:47 lubuntu /plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Feb 13 10:38:47 lubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1770, in <module>
Feb 13 10:38:47 lubuntu /plugininstall.py: install.run()
Feb 13 10:38:47 lubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 78, in wrapper
Feb 13 10:38:47 lubuntu /plugininstall.py: func(self)
Feb 13 10:38:47 lubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 252, in run
Feb 13 10:38:47 lubuntu /plugininstall.py: self.remove_extras()
Feb 13 10:38:47 lubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1455, in remove_extras
Feb 13 10:38:47 lubuntu /plugininstall.py: cache = Cache()
Feb 13 10:38:47 lubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 107, in __init__
Feb 13 10:38:47 lubuntu /plugininstall.py: self.open(progress)
Feb 13 10:38:47 lubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 151, in open
Feb 13 10:38:47 lubuntu /plugininstall.py: self._cache = apt_pkg.Cache(progress)
Feb 13 10:38:47 lubuntu /plugininstall.py: SystemError: E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /target/var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_universe_i18n_Translation-en, E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
Feb 13 10:38:47 lubuntu /plugininstall.py:

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. If you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect 1545258

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]