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Jonte YH
Asked: 2021-03-11 03:14:48 +0800 CST

E:can not open /var/lib/apt/lists/*** ... E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened

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I ran sudo apt update and and so on in the terminal, and then I got this error. I can't copy and paste this error code, so I wonder what could be the problem. Is it some permissions issue or something else?

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

Error message:

Error: Opening the cache (E:can not open /var/lib/apt/lists/download.docker.com linux_ubuntu_dists_focal InRelease  
- fopen (13: Permission denied), 
E:The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. 
This usually means that your installed packages have unmet dependencies.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I found an old answer from some old posts just run these commands:

    sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf

sudo apt-get clean

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

    It worked for me!

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