[Solved] Fresh update to LL 2.4 will not "Install Updates"

[kjacobs]

Hi group,

I have been successfully upgrading a number of machine from LL 2.2 to 2.4 with the instructions in the new release announcement. My daughter's computer was one such machine that appeared to upgrade fine. However, when I try to run "Install Updates", it errors out with "couldn't fetch the package cache information lists."

Any ideas how to fix this and get it back to updating correctly?

Thanks

[anon222]

Hello kjacobs, try to update package information lists manualy. That will produce an error message which will tell us what is wrong.
Press Ctrl+Alt+T and type next into terminal window.

Code:

sudo apt-get update

[kjacobs]

Thanks for the reply and sorry for the late response........I discovered there was a software source that was failing to update. I then refreshed the software sources and manually ran the update. From there everything worked fine and Install Updates is working again.

[Dana Marsee]

I had the same problem with the same error message as kjacobs and tried to update manually and received the following 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.

[Dana Marsee]

kjacobs: How did you refresh the software sources?

[kjacobs]

Sorry, I just found this reply and was trying to remember how I did the update. (It has been a busy summer). I believe I had to uncheck the respository in software sources that was causing the update to fail.....then did:

sudo apt-get update

I believe from there it worked fine.

[Dana Marsee]

Thanks kjacobs....not sure now what I did, but I was able to update.  Thanks for the reply.