sometimes we may encounter the error info below when using apt-get:
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ ...
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
we can run two commands below in the terminal:
sudo rm -f /var/lib/apt/lists/* sudo apt-get update
done!