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Encountered a section with no Package: header, Problem with MergeList

I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 (Netbook Edition) -- perfect for my ancient Fujitsu laptop (Intel Celeron with 512 MB RAM), but don't consider it as anything other than a starter distro.  If you plan on using it standard out-of-the-box, you shouldn't experience the following issue.  I had a need to install gcc but it's not included by default.  Running sudo apt-get install build-essentials will install it but you'll likely see this error: E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList  /var/lib/ apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. A work-around is to simply rename (or move the offending list file to /tmp) and try running apt-get again (e.g. sudo mv var/lib/ apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages /tmp/ . )