I hit the same thing a couple of hours ago, the OSRF folks are aware of it, and trying to figure out why the sync job isn't working. In the meantime, switching to the public ros repo worked for me.
-FergsOn Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Marcus Liebhardt <marcus.liebhardt@yujinrobot.com> wrote:
_______________________________________________Hi there!We are suddenly getting this strange error, when doing ''sudo apt-get update'':Fetched 26.6 MB in 32s (823 kB/s)Reading package lists... Error!E: Problem parsing dependency DependsE: Error occurred while processing ros-hydro-all (NewVersion2)E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/packages.ros.org_ros-shadow-fixed_ubuntu_dists_precise_main_binary-amd64_PackagesE: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.It keeps coming back, even after applying fixes proposed in various forum, Q&As etc.Might there is something wired going on on the server?
Cheers,Marcus
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