ASSIST ME FIX THE PROBLEM WITH MY UPDATE MANAGER : SAIAD OMAR FAROOQ

[zgiltd]

Hello,

I am Saiad from India. I have the following problem with my Ubuntu Update
Manger;

saiad at saiad:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for saiad:
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Unable to parse package file
/var/lib/apt/lists/in.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-updates_universe_i18n_Translation-en
(1)
E: Problem opening
/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-security_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
saiad at saiad:~$

Please advise how to fix this problem.

Thanks in advance.

Saiad


On Dec 13, 2013 9:20 PM, "Jack Ramsay" <jack at troop55.net> wrote:

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    Please forward it to papercuts-ninja at lists.launchpad.net



On Dec 13, 2013 9:17 PM, "zgiltd" <zgiltd at gmail.com> wrote:


Please send the instruction in detail as i am not much used to this
although i am using Ubuntu since early 2011.
Kindly advise how to do it.. step by step..

Thanks again

Saiad




On Saturday, December 14, 2013, Jack Ramsay wrote:

 Try rebooting and in the grub menu choose recovery mode and their should
be a repair option or something. U will need to also start networking



 On Dec 13, 2013 9:12 PM, "zgiltd" <zgiltd at gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Mr. Jack,

many thanks for your brisk reply and advise as i tried as per your
advise on Terminal and get the following message only;

saiad at saiad:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for saiad:
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Unable to parse package file
/var/lib/apt/lists/in.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-updates_universe_i18n_Translation-en
(1)
E: Problem opening
/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-security_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
saiad at saiad:~$

Hence, please advise what next to be done.

Thanks again

Saiad



 On 14/12/2013, Jack Ramsay <jack at troop55.net> wrote:



 Try running sudo apt-get dist-upgrade



 On Dec 13, 2013 8:56 PM, "zgiltd"
<zgiltd at gmail.com<http://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/m5zrq2es56la/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=zgiltd@gmail.com>>
wrote:

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>
> Hello,
>
> I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my DELL Vostro1015 laptop.
>
> I have a problem with my Ubuntu update manager as i cannot check or
> install any updates.
>
> As there is red mark alert/indicator on my desktop and also not able to
> open the Ubuntu software center as it's getting crashed when clicking on it.
>
> Following is the message i get when clicked on Ubuntu update manager or
> Synaptic package manager;
>
> " Could not initialize the package information
>
> An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package
> information.
>
> Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include
> the following error message:
>
> E: Unable to parse package file
> /var/lib/apt/lists/in.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-updates_universe_i18n_Translation-en
> (1)
> E: Problem opening
> /var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-security_main_binary-i386_Packages
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> E: _cache->open() failed, please report. "
>
> Please assist me fix this problem at the earliest possible.
>
> Thanks
>
> Saiad Omar Farooq
> Email: zgiltd at gmail.com<http://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/m5zrq2es56la/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=zgiltd@gmail.com>
>
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