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Software center crashes; fieldrunners need to be reinstalled; can't find achive

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http://askubuntu.com – Could not initialize the package information An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information. Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message: 'E:The package fieldrunners needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.' This is preventing me from opening Software Center and installing/uninstalling just about everything. An error occurred, please run package manager from the right-click menu or the apt-get in terminal to see what is wrong. The error message was '' (E:The package fi (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 08/22/2012

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was trying to install a new update to virtual box which didnt go right now i keep getting this error

from the spm E: The package virtualbox-4.1 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it. E: Internal error opening cache (1).

Whenever I open Update Manager, the following message is displayed:

Could not initialize the package information An 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/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.c

Possible Duplicate: How do I fix a “Problem with MergeList” error when trying to do an update?

I am using Ubuntu 10.10. While I was working, terminal was disappeared and after some time Software center also disappeared.

I recently installed the newest version of Ubuntu (12.04 LTS 32 bit).

Afterward, I opened up Update Manager and got the following error:

An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:

'E:The package mysql-server-5.5 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an arch

An unusual situation has happened to my computer. There seems to be a bug with the "update-manger" package.

I found this error message when opening the computer.

Recently installed Ubuntu 12.04.1, 64bit on Intel Quad core system. There is a Red Circle with a WHITE 'minus' sign on the upper right hand corner. In the end of a long message displayed below the RED CIRCLE in 'grey' says that INSTALLED PACKAGES HAVE UNMET DEPENDENCIES.

None of the following is working.

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I get the following errors when trying to run the auto Update Manager

Could not initialize the package information

An 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/apt/lists/ppa.launc

Trying to upgrade 20 weeks 6 days ago

Could not initialize the package information

An 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/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_natty_main_binary-i386_Packages, E:The package l