Software updater fails to start

[Chas IRONS]

On Tue, 2015-06-16 at 14:04 +0200, Chas IRONS wrote:

> Hi all 
> 
> Software updater won't start when there are updates available. I did
> click the Report button without any response.
> 
> Then I get this error on starting Synaptic Package Manager as
> instructed in the Notifications bar.
> E: Unable to parse package
> file /var/lib/apt/lists/za.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-updates_main_i18n_Translation-en (1)
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
> 
> Also ran apt-get with this result:
> chas at Charles-PC:~$ sudo apt-get check
> [sudo] password for chas: 
> Reading package lists... Error!
> E: Unable to parse package
> file /var/lib/apt/lists/za.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-updates_main_i18n_Translation-en (1)
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> 
> Hope someone can guide me to fix this.
> 
> Kind regards. Chas


I just remembered that I used the link below to install Ubuntu Tweaks
and then change the scroll bar back to its old version. Maybe that
caused the trouble. Should I use apt-get to remove Ubuntu Tweaks? Which
specific command is best?
Thanks again. Chas
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