Have You editet sources.list in /etc/apt/?
If yes show me the line.
Janusz
On Wednesday 12 September 2001 00:43, Daryl S. Ehrenheim wrote:
> Hope someone can help me with this one. I do not know what I did to get
> this error. It started yesterday. This happens everytime I apt-get update.
>
> Reading Package Lists... Error!
> E: Malformed Status line, no 3rd word
> E: Error occured while processing expect (UsePackage1)
> E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
>
> I even tried dselect update, and console-apt errors out right at the
> beginning.
>
> Thanks for any help.