Every hour or two, the Update Manager keeps giving me an error message saying that my APT configuration is corrupt and that I should switch to another Linux Mint mirror. It usually goes away when I do a manual refresh but it just keeps coming back. I have also tried switching to a different mirror but I get the same error. It also tells me to run apt-get update
but even if I add “sudo” it just gives me an error message saying to run apt-get update
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This appears to have solved the same problem for others :
https://rileymacdonald.ca/2018/04/02/ubuntu-resolved-e-package-cache-file-corrupted/
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
sudo apt update
It seems to be working now, so I might not need to try that. Last night, I used the “Fix MergeList problems” option in the maintenance tab of software sources and that seems to have fixed the issue.