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125 questions linked to/from How do I fix a "Problem with MergeList" or "status file could not be parsed" error when trying to do an update?
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"The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened" [duplicate]
Everytime I sudo apt-get update it always not complete and will say in the end
E: Read error - read (5: Input/output error)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
Same ...
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Update Manager bug: Encountered a section with no Package: header [duplicate]
I tried to do an update to my system (12.04 LTA 64bit, on ACER aspire V5) got this:
Could not initialize the package information
An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package ...
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Apt encounters errors with bad GPG keys [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I fix a “Problem with MergeList” error when trying to do an update?
I always have been a Windows guy but with my recent interesting and degree (Microbiology)...
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My repos became corrupted: Unable to parse package file [duplicate]
Suddenly ubuntu 14.04 started to print this:
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/apt/lists/ru.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_restricted_i18n_Translation-...
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Update fails. Can't install any software ! [duplicate]
I did sudo apt-get update
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/...
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"Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/repository.spotify.com" while updating the list [duplicate]
Everything was working fine just yesterday. Today I wanted to update and it failed with the following error:
Pakketlijsten worden ingelezen... Fout!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E:...
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Problem with MergeList during apt-get [duplicate]
Whenever I try to install something, I get the same error:
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/repo.mongodb....
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I can't remove packages that have unmet dependencies [duplicate]
EDIT 3 :
This is after command sudo apt-get purge libpciaccess*
laur@laur-System-Product-Name:~$ sudo apt-get purge
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state ...
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problem after apt-get update command [duplicate]
Recently , i tried to install google earth from Ubuntu tweak . the programme asked me to add the repository of google earth . well,after i do the command i found that an error message that told me ...
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Apt-get update errors (can't read the package lists) [duplicate]
After running the an update from the update-manager I tried to install chromium:
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
And I got the following error (full output from `sudo apt-get update' on Ubuntu ...
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Dependency errors. Sudo apt update [duplicate]
Whenever I run sudo apt update
I get this result
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Problem parsing dependency 21 of libx32gcc-10-dev:i386=10-20200411-0ubuntu1
E: Error occurred while processing ...
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When I try to run update-manager then I receive the following error: [duplicate]
** (appstreamcli:7309): WARNING **: 10:16:30.753: No origin found for file us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_focal-updates_main_dep11_Components-amd64.yml.gz
** (appstreamcli:7309): WARNING **: 10:...
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How do I install and use Times New Roman Font with LibreOffice Writer? [duplicate]
I need the font for my ebook.
I have looked around for questions similar to this. Unfortunately, when I try to use the commands in the terminal I am greeted with this:
Reading package lists... ...
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GPG Error: Unknown error executing apt-key [duplicate]
A little background first...
Installed Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-1029-raspi aarch64) on Raspberry Pi 4. (This is not a docker container.) Made sure locale and system clock were set up ...
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Ubuntu suddenly broke audio, apt-get and flash [duplicate]
I was using my computer normally until I noticed something wasn't right and I rebooted it. Then I couldn't browse webs with flash with chrome, couldn't load an HTML5 video from youtube. When I try to ...
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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!
E: Encountered a section with ...
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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
E: ...
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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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