Debian Configuration :: Apt / Aptitude - Encountered Section With No Package
Apr 18, 2011
I changed to testing repository in my Debian 6.0 and I used command "apt-get update". Now, everytime I want to do something with apt-get or aptitude, I receive this:
With apt-get:
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.cz.debian.org_debian_dists_squeeze_main_i18n_Translation-cs
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
or with aptitude:
[ ERR] Reading package lists
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.cz.debian.org_debian_dists_squeeze_main_i18n_Translation-cs
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: Couldn't rebuild package cache
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.cz.debian.org_debian_dists_squeeze_main_i18n_Translation-cs
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.....
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Jun 13, 2011
I'm runing UBUNTU 11.04 and new to UBUNTU and LINUX. Everything was working fine for me, but somehow Synaptic Pakage Manager and Software Center are now messed up.When I try to open Synaptic I get this error message:
Code:
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/downloadue.info_repo_dists_natty_all_binary-amd64_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
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I can open the Software Center but it hangs when I click on any of the options or try to do a search.
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Apr 29, 2011
Code:
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_natty-updates_universe_i18n_Translation-en
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
Get this kind of error while trying to update Natty.
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Jun 5, 2011
I have an error message that I do not understand nor know how to resolve:
E: encountered a section with no Package:header
E: Problem with MergeList/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.canonical.com_ubuntu_dists_natty_partner_b inary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache>open() failed, please report.
I hope this is simple for some of you!!! I do not have a clue what this means, I'm pathetic.
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Jun 10, 2011
I cannot get the update or software center to work now that I am running natty. When I try to update manager it says
"E:Encountered a section with no Package:
header, Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_natty_main_bina ry-i386_Packages,
E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened"
I assume that the software center has something to do with this too...
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Jul 11, 2010
I am trying to upgrade an amd64 lenny system to squeeze.I've got a 2.6.32 kernel running, done aptitude update and aptitude install aptitude.When I try "aptitude safe-upgrade", it sits forever resolving dependencies.it seems to search with the resolver counting up more and more open/conflict/ whatever.I stopped it once it got over 100,000)Is it possible to get aptitude to do a safe-upgrade, perhaps using a command line option?
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Jan 29, 2010
I've build a package using dpkg-buildpackage but whenever I run aptitude safe-upgrade it upgrades the package I compiled as well even though it's the same version is there a way to tell it to leave it alone?
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Aug 14, 2010
I have Lenny with Gnome installed. Does Synaptic Package Manager use apt-get or aptitude?
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Jun 27, 2011
I had debian squeeze on my personal computer at home, 3 days ago i've upgraded it to the debian testing. last day i've installed virtualbox which i've gotten from virtualbox.org . today non of package managers work. an example of installing sumthin new with apt:
root@fairyland:/home/timmy# apt-get install clamav
Reading package lists... Done
Segmentation faulty tree... 50%
root@fairyland:/home/timmy#
also synaptic can't be started. i've run apt-get clean and removed /var/lib/apt/list i also tried apt-get update but these don't work sum useful info:
root@fairyland:/home/timmy# tail -n 40 /var/log/dpkg.log
2011-06-26 11:58:07 status half-installed virtualbox-ose 3.2.12-dfsg-1
2011-06-26 11:58:07 status config-files virtualbox-ose 3.2.12-dfsg-1
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just don't tell me i've to refresh its base, shit i hate to do this, i'd never done that about debian, this is one of the reasons i luv debian.
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Jan 26, 2011
I am running Debian Sid unstable , from one day apt-get, aptitude and dpkg cannot install any package.
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Jan 15, 2011
I regularly compile something from a source repository that has a certain set of dependencies. Some of these dependencies are dev libraries that are provided via other libraries but are not considered installed packages in themselves, so I cannot test for some dependencies directly.
I am currently parsing an "apt-cache showpkg" output to check for some of these provided dependencies. This is somewhat kludge-y and messy, and I was looking for a more elegant solution.
Is there an APTITUDE option that will directly test for the presence of a library that is part of some other package without having to know the name of the package that the library is part of?
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Mar 25, 2011
I have had this problem repeatedly with aptitude recently. I run Debian Squeeze but in a somewhat unusual fashion - I create a custom live image using the builder on the Debian Live website and then run the live image in persistent mode off a flash drive. For all intents and purposes this has never behaved any differently from a standard Debian install and has given me a great deal of flexibility and power, for which I'm grateful.
However there's been one strange phenomenon that keeps occurring. After a certain point - not before - aptitude stops removing dependencies when I remove packages, though in the ncurses interface the option is shown as switched on (and my .aptitude/config file does not switch it off, nor does any other configuration file that I can find, though maybe I'm missing something). This occurs even in the case of dependencies which I know cannot be depended upon by any other package. e.g. the e17 package in unstable brings in libecore, libevas etc. which are depended on only by e17 as I have no other Enlightenment packages installed. But removing e17 removes only the e17 package and not the dependencies.
The other odd thing is that this does not occur at first. Aptitude works fine for a while on a clean system. At some point though it simply changes in behaviour.
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Mar 1, 2010
I'm running Debian squeeze and my packages are all up to date. I usually do my updates by typing 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude safe-upgrade' at the command line as root.Sometimes when doing regular updates aptitude, or the package that's being updated, shows a ncurses-style dialog box on the screen, usually to have the user 'OK' a change, or to select which version of a configuration file to keep. Recently I've found these dialog boxes to be slightly messed up... in that the spot at the bottom where I would expect the 'OK' button to be is replaced by nonsensical characters.
There seems to be no problem with the way that the program functions, as I can press the tab key and then the return key, or just the return key alone, and the dialog goes away, seemingly doing it's job. But I would like to know what this program is. It's likely been updated recently, but looking through /var/log/aptitude and /var/log/aptitude.1.gz I cannot figure out which one it is. I'd like to file a bug report, or simply be able to follow the progress of someone else's bug. That's all.
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Nov 6, 2015
I use Jessie, with the Aptitude curses interface for package management. It seems that every time I successfully uninstall/purge a package (along with its dependencies), then the next time I try to install/uninstall anything else it wants to reinstall that package (and its dependencies). It takes several (I haven't counted) "don't install" instructions from me before it will forget about it.
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Nov 21, 2010
After running "aptitude upgrade" I have been getting a message lately such as "There are x updates available, it is recommended to update your system". But, running aptitude update/upgrade again afterwards, aptitude ignores these supposedly available updates to the system. How can I clear up this situation?. I am using the latest Debian Squeeze distro
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Jan 22, 2011
I installed squeeze 2 or 3 weeks ago. When I run aptitude update in the terminal, it looks for me to load a cd. What's that about? see below
debian@dell:~$ su
Password:
root@dell:/home/debian# aptitude update
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot amd64 kde-CD Binary-1 20110110-07:46] squeeze Release.gpg
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Feb 18, 2011
I'm developing with puppet, and I need to do an aptitude update from a specific file, here is my configuration: The file sources.list in /etc/apt/ is deleted. I've created 3 files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d each one with their repos:
00-debian_sources.list
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
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All the repos are updated/refreshed , and I only want to refresh/update the specific repos insie of the file 01-debian_security_updates.list. On the other hand if I put some repos in the sources.list and delete the 3 files and I create an external file for example in /tmp/temprepo and I do the command aptitude update -o dir::etc::sourcelist=/tmp/temprepo it works fine.give some workaround to update and then upgrade packages from the files specified in my config.
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Mar 4, 2011
I have downloaded the package but i dont know how to install and start the program.
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Jun 20, 2010
I just finished installing a dual boot XP/Ubuntu 10.04 LTS for desktop about half an hour ago, and it's my first experience with a Linux OS. Now that my *complete idiot noob* flag is flying, I have an error I think I need to report:An error occurs with the Package Manager, I get this message when I try to run it, and when Ubuntu boots:
E: Encountered a Package with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/
us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_restricte d_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
This usually means that your installed packages have unmet dependencies I tried to download and install Chrome, and it came up with a similar error.
Is my install corrupt/incomplete or something? My setup is a P4 2.4Ghz, 512Mb RAM, onboard graphics, wireless internet and the HDD is 40GB, split into 2 partitions, and my Ubuntu Partition is 10 GB. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS distribution, and the other OS is Windows XP Professional SP3.I installed Ubuntu by using the Wubi installer.
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Mar 18, 2010
I had been doing some removal of packages, and things went well, or so I thought. Now whenever I try and install any package using aptitude, some old state is lingering around and wants me to install packages that I do not want, and remove some packages that I am not sure about removing (did I actually select those to be removed??) I removed libvirt etc, and now it wants to come back? Also, like I mentioned, why remove those other four packages?
The following NEW packages will be installed:
aqemu gtkrsync libvirt-doc libvirt0 python-libvirt qemu qemu-kvm qemu-system qemu-user qemu-utils virt-top virt-viewer virtinst
The following packages will be removed:
dnsmasq-base{u} netcat-openbsd{u} python-gtk-vnc{u} python-vte{u}
0 packages upgraded, 13 newly installed, 4 to remove and 176 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,210kB/24.3MB of archives. After unpacking 72.7MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] ^C
Running squeeze, and enjoying it so far, apart from a broken out of the box synergy (compiled my own synergy-plus to fix that issue) and a buggy samba client.
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Aug 22, 2011
Is there any way to colorize the output of aptitude as in 'pacman-color'? I would like to use ~/.Xdefaults colors.
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Sep 1, 2011
It's trying to fix/complete failed installs but keeps encountering the same errors (error message below). I'm running basically Testing, but there are a few Stable and SID packages due to issues with the blasted nVidia legacy drivers. I've swapped out the video board with an ATI board so that is sorted, but now I can't do any updates. Hoping there is some way to manually override apt's determination to try to fix all broken packages whenever I do anything (install, remove, update, etc). A Google search of this error message didn't turn up anything recent. Any thoughts are welcome.
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Mar 27, 2016
I'm attempting to install some software on my friend's computer. It keeps saying the packages I want aren't there but I know they are. I've been fooling around with this for a while. I may have broken something in the process. Repository names, perhaps?Is there some way to reinstall Synaptic/Aptitude and "wipe the slate clean?"
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Nov 4, 2010
when I try to install a package, I've the message The following packages have unmet dependencies:package-xy: Depends:lib-something (>= version_number) which is a virtual package.
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Jun 14, 2010
Background: An [old] x86-based server running Debian Squeeze screwed up one of its SCSI hardware raids. Since the problem seemed more related to the raid controller than the disks (the disks still responded and I was able to restore their contents with some trickery), I got myself a QNAP NAS TS-119 as a replacement, installed Debian on it and wanted to install the original set of packages to the new platform.Instead of simply installing all packages on the QNAP that were on the old x86 box, I wanted to maintain the status of automatically installed packages in aptitude.
After looking at /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates and a bit of confusionI looked at the aptitude source code and found the following rather simple explanation:Aptitude merges the package status information from apt and aptitude without storing redundant information in its own status file (which is good). This means the information aboutckages that were automatically installed is tracked in /var/lib/apt/extended_states.This may seem trivial but I couldn't find this information on the Internet I thought I'd submit a dummy question here in case others are havng similar problems.For the sake of completeness: There seem to be situations (like pending actions) where aptitude will store auto-install information in its own state file, /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates.
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Apr 6, 2011
Aptitude a next to package status?
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Dec 15, 2010
I'm trying to install Apache2+PHP5+MySQL-cluster on a Ubuntu 10.10 server. I've done many installs like this but with just plain MySQL so this is my first time using mysql-cluster. After getting mysql-cluster working I went back and installed the packages for apache and php5, but somehow I forgot to install the php5-mysql package (not sure how I missed that!) so when I got back to install it it tells me it wants to uninstall mysql-cluster. The "error" I see is:
mysql-cluster-client will be automatically removed because of dependency errors:
* mysql-cluster-client depends on mysql-cluster-client-5.1 [universe]
I put a lot of time in to get mysql-cluster working and don't want to lose it. How do I tell aptitude to just leave it alone and install the php5-mysql package?
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Jan 13, 2010
I installed a Amsynth from Lucid in Karmic using:
dpkg --force-depends-version -i amsynth_1.2.2-1_i386.deb
The reason for installing the Lucid version is because Karmic version is 3 years old and crashes on my machine. The Lucid Amsynth package depends on newer versions of libatk1 and libjack0 than Karmic has, but I thought I would take a risk, and turns out Amsynth runs fine. However aptitude tries to uninstall Amsynth every time I do an upgrade. I think I've managed to put it on hold but now aptitude aborts. How can I tell aptitude to ignore the broken package and carry on.
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Jan 19, 2010
i installed a package with dpkg --install and told it to ignore an unmet dependency because the package it depended on could not be installed with apt-get (it was a perl module) and i have manually installed the perl module, it works... however every time i do "apt-get upgrade" or anything like that it wants to remove the package i forced to install because it still thinks there are unmet dependencies, is there a way to either tell it to ignore that the package has unmet dependencies (i mean ignore that always, not something i will have to add every time i use aptitude) or is there a way to convince it that the package it thinks is missing (the unmet dependency) is actually met.
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Nov 16, 2010
I was wondering if anyone knew how to get long package descriptions which searching for packages with aptitude.my search results have package descriptions that are truncated even if the terminal is expanded to allow longer one-line package descriptions.
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