<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><style type="text/css">body { font-family:'Droid Sans Mono'; font-size:12px}</style></head><body><div>On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 22:24:49 -0700, wrote:<br><br>> On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 21:36:07 -0700, Elizabeth Krumbach <lyz@ubuntu.com> <br>> wrote:<br>><br>>> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Paul Donlan <padlan1@gmail.com> wrote:<br>>>> One one of my two laptops which runs Xubuntu 12.04, after upgrading the<br>>>> latest applications, I got this message:<br>>>><br>>>> Failed to load the package list<em><br>>>> This is a serious problem. Try again later. If this problem appears <br>>>> again,<br>>>> please report an error to the developers.<br>>>> E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with <br>>>> MergeList<br>>>> /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_universe_binary-i386_Packages,<br>>>> E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.</em><br><br>>><br>>> What did you type that created this output?<br>>><br>>> If you haven't already, you might want to run "sudo apt-get update" to<br>>> see if you can download the Packages files again.</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>This is where I found the solution to this issue: http://www.ihaveapc.com/2011/06/linux-mint-ubuntu-shell-script-to-fix-problem-with-mergelist-varlibaptlists/ </div><div><br></div><div>I ran the commands and it fixed the problem with the mergelist<br> </div><div id="M2Signature"><div><div>Paul Donlan</div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div></div></body></html>