MintUpdate "Error in checkAPT.py" RESOLVED

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I can't refresh the list of packages anymore, as I'm getting this "Error in checkAPT.py" message when I check the Information setting of MintUpdate. There's this thread on the subject but the solution confuses me. Can someone shed some light on this?

[DrHu]

I can't refresh the list of packages anymore, as I'm getting this "Error in checkAPT.py" message when I check the Information setting of MintUpdate.

My first thought, reinstall the offending application: mintupdate, synaptic makes that fairly easy (package manager)

Yeah, I don't know what that link is either, it is just the log of of mintupdate ?
--anyway a search in Mint with that error gets this hit list..
http://forums.linuxmint.com/search.php? ... heckapt+py
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... py#p107473

Anyway, try
In a terminal

• sudo apt clean
  sudo apt autoremove
  or
  sudo aptitude clean
  sudo aptitude autoclean

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I can't refresh the list of packages anymore, as I'm getting this "Error in checkAPT.py" message when I check the Information setting of MintUpdate.

My first thought, reinstall the offending application: mintupdate, synaptic makes that fairly easy (package manager)

Ah, funnily (actually not so funny) enough, when I hit Synaptic, I get this error message:

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E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/deb.playonlinux.com_dists_hardy_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

So I'm guessing this is a sources problem or what? I'm out of ideas.

[DrHu]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=357256
post #5. might help..

[red-e-made]

Nope, nothing there made a difference.

[red-e-made]

I did find a solution to this problem, though: I went into /var/lib/apt/lists and removed the offending file from the directory. To be on the safe side, I opened this directory in root and moved the file to Trash instead of flat-out deleting it. This made both MintUpdate and Synaptic work.

[Paddy78]

I can't refresh the list of packages anymore, as I'm getting this "Error in checkAPT.py" message when I check the Information setting of MintUpdate.

My first thought, reinstall the offending application: mintupdate, synaptic makes that fairly easy (package manager)

Yeah, I don't know what that link is either, it is just the log of of mintupdate ?
--anyway a search in Mint with that error gets this hit list..
http://forums.linuxmint.com/search.php? ... heckapt+py
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... py#p107473

Anyway, try
In a terminal

• sudo apt clean
  sudo apt autoremove
  or
  sudo aptitude clean
  sudo aptitude autoclean

I was having the same error message and tried this, all sorted now Thanks for the help