An error occured.......unmet dependecies.........run package manager

Question

There's a red circle with minus sign at the top left corner on my ubuntu 14.04 desktop, when clicked it says:

An error occurred, please run Package Manager from the right-click menu or apt-get in a terminal to see what is wrong.

The error message was:

Error: Opening the cache(E:Encountered a section with no package:header, E: Problem with MergeList/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_main_i18n_Transaltion-en, E:The package lists or status file could not be opened or parsed.)'. This usually means that your installed packages have unmet dependencies.

Please help me solve this problem.

try sudo apt-get install -f, restart PC - see if anything changes... it has happened to me few times — RiddleMeThis, Jun 07 '15 at 10:16
and possible duplicate of http://askubuntu.com/questions/300482/an-error-occurred-please-run-package-manager?rq=1 — RiddleMeThis, Jun 07 '15 at 10:22
possible duplicate of How do I fix a "Problem with MergeList" or "status file could not be parsed" error when trying to do an update? — karel, Jun 07 '15 at 11:51

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 07 '15 at 10:23

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You need to first remove the problematic Merge List and then re-create it. Open your terminal and run the following codes:

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

answered Jun 07 '15 at 10:23

Ron

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An error occured.......unmet dependecies.........run package manager

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