{"id":40,"date":"2015-02-14T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/14\/linux-mint-and-ubuntu-error-e-encountered-a-section-with-no-package-header\/"},"modified":"2021-02-22T01:03:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T01:03:32","slug":"e-encountered-section-with-no-package-header","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/e-encountered-section-with-no-package-header.html","title":{"rendered":"Linux Mint and Ubuntu Error: E: Encountered a section with no Package: header"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mint Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/mint.png\" alt=\"Linux mint Logo\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>If you encounter the following problem on Linux Mint or Ubuntu while using aptitude or apt-get:<br \/>\n<b>E: Encountered a section with no Package: header<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"more\"><\/a>The below will solve it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>sudo rm \/var\/lib\/apt\/lists\/* -vf<br \/>\nsudo apt-get update<br \/>\nsudo apt-get upgrade<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Have a different method? Let me know! <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If you encounter the following problem on Linux Mint or Ubuntu while using aptitude or apt-get: E: Encountered a section with no Package: header The below will solve it: sudo rm \/var\/lib\/apt\/lists\/* -vf sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade Have a different method? Let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,6,57,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aptitude","category-linux","category-mint","category-ubuntu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tech-and-dev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}