Reading package lists...Error!

If you google out this error there are plenty of links which describe this error. It seems that the file is messed up. You can try out the options specified here.

sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status.bad
sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status
sudo apt-get update

This below option did not work for this particular case.

Another link that describes the similar issue is here.

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

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Apt