Hi Stephen,
I have been facing an issue with the software center for the past few days. Every time I try to open it, the window opens for a few seconds and then closes on its own.
I also tried downloading a .deb file directly from a website and tried installing it on my laptop, but I am getting the following message
"Software index is broken""This is a major failure of your software management system. Please check for broken packages with synaptic, check the file permissions and correctness of the file '/etc/apt/sources.list' and reload the software information with: 'sudo apt-get update' and 'sudo apt-get install -f'."
I tried to run synaptic package manager
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/uberstudent.net_dists_trusty_main_i18n_Translation-en
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
Not sure what I did to break all this stuff up though.
Cheers
Dinesh