Michael, Thanks. The second approach worked. System responses in blue.
I think this may be useful to post. It may help others in this situation. Thanks again, Jeff ----- Original Message ---- From: Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 5, 2008 7:04:08 AM Subject: [Bug 226361] Re: Could not initialize the package information Thanks for your bugreport. Could you please open a terminal and run: $ sudo apt-get update and see if that fixes the issue? Get:13 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/multiverse Packages [9936B] Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/universe Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/main Sources Get:14 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/restricted Sources [937B] Fetched 234kB in 60s (3871B/s) Reading package lists... Error! E: Problem parsing dependency Depends E: Error occurred while processing evolution-plugins (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. If not, could you please try to remove the files in /var/lib/apt/lists/ for the us.archive.ubuntu.com system and try again? It might be a corrupted download. Run: $ sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/us* $ sudo apt-get update Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/restricted Sources [2120B] Get:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe Packages [4065kB] Get:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe Sources [1226kB] Get:12 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/multiverse Packages [158kB] Get:13 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/multiverse Sources [56.8kB] Get:14 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/main Packages [260kB] Get:15 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/restricted Packages [4263B] Get:16 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/multiverse Packages [9936B] Get:17 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/universe Packages [83.0kB] Get:18 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/main Sources [71.8kB] Get:19 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy-updates/restricted Sources [937B] Fetched 7451kB in 1m42s (72.8kB/s) Reading package lists... Done ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- Could not initialize the package information https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226361 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. ** Attachment added: "unnamed" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14243203/unnamed -- Could not initialize the package information https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226361 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
