Updates fail

[Dana Marsee]

When I try to update I get an error message...."Couldn't fetch the package cache information lists".
So I tried to install updates manually with terminal and got another error message...
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/repo.steampowered.com_steam_dists_precise_steam_i18n_Translation-en
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.


Is anybody else having this problem?  Can you tell me what I need to do to get updated?
Thanks..

[shaggytwodope]

It's very important you copy these commands carefully, with the wrong folder paths you can do some harm to your system.

This will purge the old cache so to speak.

Code:

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf

This will then update the caches again for the repos. Then procede to run updates as you normally would.

Code:

sudo apt-get update

I copied this from another post, what happens here is that the file might've gotten messed up while being downloaded. It's funky to say the least, but does happen on almost all debian/apt based distros.

[Dana Marsee]

Thank you very much.  That took care of it..updates went through smooth as silk, just like before.  I appreciate your help very much  ShaggyTwoDope.

[glin22]

This problem happened to me too !

Thanks much for your help, Shaggy !

Glin22

[Monkeyman]

Same thing happened to me.  I just rebooted a couple times and things got back to normal.

[Bert]

Same thing happened to me.  I just rebooted a couple times and things got back to normal.

Exactly my experience  8)
In my case one reboot was enough.