Tuesday, January 24, 2017

E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_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.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=114923

You can remove the package lists, and then fetch them anew. To do so open a terminal and run the following two commands (one at a time):
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sudo rm -fv /var/lib/apt/lists/*
sudo apt-get update

That should solve the MergeList issue.