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Created December 7, 2014 15:02
Ubuntu/Debian broken packages fix
# Originally written by @thomas-w on stackoverflow: http://askubuntu.com/questions/515038/the-package-lists-or-status-file-could-not-be-parsed-or-openederror-during-inst
#!/bin/bash
sudo cp -arf /var/lib/dpkg /var/lib/dpkg.backup
sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status
sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/available-old /var/lib/dpkg/available
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/updates/*
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists
sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists
sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists/partial
sudo apt-get clean