Hi Michele,

Thanks very much for the hint. Unfortunately, when I ran apt-get update, it comes up with the following (I'm paraphrasing)...
*****
Reading package lists... Error!
W: GPG error: ppa.launchpad.net
The following signatures were invalid...
BADSIG ... Launchpad PPA for Daniel Richter
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with mergelist ...
*****

So, with a bit of searching, I found this web page ...
   http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1978554
... then followed these instructions ...
   sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf
   sudo apt-get update
... and got an error-free result.

Now both Software Manager and Synaptic start up OK.

However:

I'm pretty sure the only thing I use from Daniel Richter is grub-customizer. And that program appears as installed in both Software Manager and Synaptic.

Just wondering, if anyone knows, whether any updates for my grub-customizer will continue to be detected and installed in the future? Or is it now "orphaned"... in an updating sense of the word?

Carl


On 11/06/15 23:53, Michele Bert wrote:
2015-06-11 15:18 GMT+02:00 Carl Turney <[email protected]>:

Starting Synaptic only gives the following error messages (and Synaptic won't 
run):
*****

An error occurred
The following details are provided:

E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList 
/var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_danielrichter2007_grub-customizer_ubuntu_dists_trusty_main_i18n_Translation-en
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

*****


t looks like the package list is corrupted. Try to update it from command line:
sudo apt-get update

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