I did the "sudo apt update" and now everything seems fine.
Let's hope it stays that way
Thanks a lot for you help !!
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a web search should bring up the fix for google making some changes to their repos.
Just run sudo apt update, which (I think) will reveal a prompt to OK the changes. You can't do any damage with the update command, nor the command to perform any upgrades; [#]sudo apt full-upgrade[/#]. You are prompted before you proceed so you can bail if you don't like what you see.
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You probably want to delete both dl.google.com files from /var/lib/apt/lists and let it regenerate them.
As to the 20.04 upgrade from 18.04, as per usual, Ubuntu LTS releases don't get an upgrade prompt until the '.1' release, which will be in a few weeks or a month. One can start the process manually.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FocalUpgrades/Kubuntu
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Originally posted by claydoh View Postare you getting the error?
if not then you won't need to delete anything
Another thing is that I don't get an option to upgrade to 20.4. Not that I'm interested to upgrade now but I would like to see the option.
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are you getting the error?
if not then you won't need to delete anything
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That's not a valid filename for an apt list file. Is it possible you attempted a manual list-add and typo'd it?
It is not a sources list, the /var/lib/apt/lists dir is a " Storage area for state information for each package resource specified in sources.list(5)", the files with 'InRelease" have the gpg key info, the other files are lists of packages. Removing any of these files is fine as updating regenerates these.Last edited by claydoh; Jul 13, 2020, 12:43 PM.
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That's not a valid filename for an apt list file. Is it possible you attempted a manual list-add and typo'd it?
Open the file with Kate or Kwrite. If it's gibberish, delete it. If it looks something like:
Code:[FONT=monospace][COLOR=#000000]###[/COLOR] ### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ### # You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost. deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main [/FONT]
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You should be able to delete the offending file shown in the error message
You can run apt update or apt-full-upgrade to get the correct file name, so you can copy and paste the full path and name
ie: sudo rm /the/full/path/to/the/bad/annoying/corrupted/file
https://itsfoss.com/unable-to-parse-package-file/Last edited by claydoh; Jul 12, 2020, 03:18 PM.
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