Unable to parse package file...

[henadin]

Hello! I've never had any breaking errors like this on my raspberry pi.

I've just installed Raspian wheezy on my Pi.
I SSH into my Pi then I ran sudo raspi-config and expanded filesystem, changed password, then rebooted.

When the pi loaded back again I logged in, then proceeded to try to install a program.

Here's what we get:

"sudo apt-get install apache2
Reading package lists...Error!
E: Unable to parser package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
"

What can be causing this issue?

Thanks

[dr.meow]

me too

[dr.meow]

i did find a solution. think it was the second post of this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1841228

basically - remove cached package lists with:

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sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

then download new package location lists with:

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sudo apt-get update

[irishcanuck]

I was getting the same error trying to update a fresh install of jessie; I had ignored the error from unzip when uncompressing the image onto a vfat filesystem. The problem was that vfat is only capable of 4gb files or less and had truncated the 4.3 gb raspbian image to 4gb. Hence I encountered the above error when attempting to apt-get update

[M.Amin]

Hi!
this problem has a simple solution. don't worry
just execute this in command line (terminal):

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sudo mv /var/lib/apt/extended_states /var/lib/apt/extended_states_tmp