Update Manager: Could not initialize the package information
Bug #228083 reported by
Michael Wildhack
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop, upgraded from 7.10
I attempted a routine check for updates, got his error report :
A unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.
Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package
and include the following error message:
'E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/
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After reporting "bugs/errors" I opened Add/Remove Programs
which gave me a new error message
AND
the error message here suggested in part:
using
sudo apt-get update
&
sudo apt-get install -f
after which I was able to install one program,
and then run update-manager successfully
to install 36 updates for Hardy-Heron
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MichaelW