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Canno't open ubuntu software center and synaptic package manager [duplicate]
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How do I fix a “Problem with MergeList” error when trying to do an update?
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/...
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Failure while apt-get update [duplicate]
Just installed server 14.04 LTS on server i have, but everytime i try to use "apt-get update" it fails with the output:
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Reading package lists... Error!
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How do I fix "The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened" during an update? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“Problem with MergeList” error when trying to do an update
I have a problem with the update-manager.
It gives the following message error:
E:Encountered a ...
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On Kubuntu 14.04, Muon doesn't work after update and upgrade via terminal [duplicate]
I ran:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
on my terminal. After that, neither the "muon update manager" nor the "muon software center" work, when run, they both give an error:
Initialization ...
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apt-get update errors after installing google chrome [duplicate]
I have asked a question related to this problem before here
How to fix Update error: Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file?. But I was told to ask a new question after it was established that my ...
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Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_gwibber-daily_ppa_ubuntu_dists_precise_main_i18n_Translation-en [duplicate]
I use ubuntu 12.04 LTS. It was all well. But suddenly from yesterday whenever I try to install something it shows:
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
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Language Support won't open [duplicate]
$ gnome-language-selector
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/gnome-language-selector", line 22, in on_activate
options=options)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/...
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Problem with mergelist [duplicate]
Suddenly, my Ubuntu reports an error and no longer does updates because of this error. The error seems to be the following:
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: ...
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installation of sshd in Ubuntu 14.04 [duplicate]
I am trying to install sshd on my Ubuntu system but I am unable to do so. I tried below things.
sudo apt-get install openssh but I received below error.
When I am checking with which command for ssh,...
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Can't install root-system-bin [duplicate]
Im using Ubuntu 13.0.4 and have tried getting updates via the command line ..no joy
Latest issue is trying to install Root
sudo apt-get install root-system-bin
Getting message
Reading package lists .....
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Unable to remove the packages in ubuntu [duplicate]
When I try to remove the virtual box installed on ubuntu as follow,
sachin-verma@sachin-verma:~$ sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-5.1
Then it shows following errors:
Reading package lists... Error!
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How to fix "Problem with MergeList" error when running an update? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“Problem with MergeList” error when trying to do an update
After "sudo apt-get update" in terminal, I get:
58% [99 Translation-en lzma 0 B] [Connecting to archive....
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Error The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened while updating [duplicate]
I was trying to :
sudo apt-get update
Didn't work with error:
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports InRelease
Hit:3 http://ftp....
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Ubuntu will not update, I get an error [duplicate]
Here is the error I get when trying to update Ubuntu:
Could not initialize the package information
An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.
Please report this bug ...
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Ubuntu software center not working in Ubuntu 14.04 [duplicate]
When I try to open software center, it gets closed within 5 seconds after being opened. I am not able to install or un-install any software using terminal too.
When I tried to uninstall Software ...
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