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After running update manager these are the error messages I get...

E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_main_i18n_Translation-en
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

Software manager has stopped working also

I am using Linux Mint Maya. What is wrong?

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    You have a broken package list. This can usually be repaired by manually inspecting the file, but I am not capable of explaining a general method to do this. Removing the file in the error message, waiting a bit and calling the update manager again might fix the problem. Commented Nov 7, 2012 at 0:58
  • Hi Thanks, fixed it.... There were 2 files in the list folder that were web pages, with that same file name.. (don't knot how they got there).. once deleted all works fine :-) THANKS..... Commented Nov 8, 2012 at 0:44
  • I can get a similar error by manually trashing one of the /var/lib/apt/lists/*_i18n_Translation-en files (on Debian9 here). The question is: May server problems yield HTML contents in these files without apt noticing it? If so, apt and friends should be made more robust, i.e. should get code to detect this. apt-get clean wasn't enough to get it clean again. Commented Jul 2, 2019 at 4:08

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One possible solution would be removing all files in /var/lib/apt/lists/:

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/*

Then run the manager again or sudo apt-get update.

Did the trick for me.

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In the terminal:

sudo rm -r /var/lib/apt/lists/*


sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get update
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