<div><br></div>Hello,<div><br></div><div>I am Saiad from India. I have the following problem with my Ubuntu Update Manger;</div><div><br></div><div>saiad@saiad:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade<br>[sudo] password for saiad:<br>
Reading package lists... Error!<br>E: Unable to parse package file<br>/var/lib/apt/lists/in.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-updates_universe_i18n_Translation-en<br>(1)<br>E: Problem opening<br>/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-security_main_binary-i386_Packages<br>
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.<br>saiad@saiad:~$<br><br>Please advise how to fix this problem.<br><br>Thanks in advance.<br><br>Saiad<br><br><br>
<div>On Dec 13, 2013 9:20 PM, "Jack Ramsay" <<a>jack@troop55.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
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<div>On Dec 13, 2013 9:17 PM, "zgiltd" <<a>zgiltd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><br></div>Please send the instruction in detail as i am not much used to this although i am using Ubuntu since early 2011. <div>Kindly advise how to do it.. step by step.. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again</div>
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Try rebooting and in the grub menu choose recovery mode and their should be a repair option or something. U will need to also start networking</p></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>
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<div>On Dec 13, 2013 9:12 PM, "zgiltd" <<a>zgiltd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hello Mr. Jack,<br>
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many thanks for your brisk reply and advise as i tried as per your<br>
advise on Terminal and get the following message only;<br>
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saiad@saiad:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade<br>
[sudo] password for saiad:<br>
Reading package lists... Error!<br>
E: Unable to parse package file<br>
/var/lib/apt/lists/in.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-updates_universe_i18n_Translation-en<br>
(1)<br>
E: Problem opening<br>
/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-security_main_binary-i386_Packages<br>
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.<br>
saiad@saiad:~$<br>
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Hence, please advise what next to be done.<br>
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Thanks again<br>
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<font color="#550055">On Dec 13, 2013 8:56 PM, "zgiltd" <<a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/m5zrq2es56la/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=zgiltd@gmail.com" target="_blank">zgiltd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
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<div><div><br></div><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my DELL Vostro1015 laptop.</div><div><br></div><div>I have a problem with my Ubuntu update manager as i cannot check or install any updates. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Following is the message i get when clicked on Ubuntu update manager or Synaptic package manager;</div>
<div><br></div><div>" Could not initialize the package information</div><div><br></div><div>An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.</div><div><br></div><div>Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:</div>
<div><br></div><div>E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/apt/lists/in.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-updates_universe_i18n_Translation-en (1)</div><div>E: Problem opening /var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-security_main_binary-i386_Packages</div>
<div>E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.</div><div>E: _cache->open() failed, please report. "</div><div><br></div><div>Please assist me fix this problem at the earliest possible.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Saiad Omar Farooq</div><div>Email: <a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/m5zrq2es56la/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=zgiltd@gmail.com" target="_blank">zgiltd@gmail.com</a></div>
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