I would suggest starting by investigating "/var/lib/apt/lists" and either remove any obvious duplicates or disable each one individually and see which one is causing the error, then deal with fixing that one directly. 

Thanks,
Alexander

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S22+

On Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 14:20 joe--- via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
How to refresh the list of updates?

I have a Thinkpad T420 running an older version
of Linux Mint as my main computer ... however,
I have been unable to update it because I get
this error message:

Could not refresh the list of updates

WzDuplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/
chrome/deb/ stable/main amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/
dLgoog|e.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_main_binary-
amd64_packages).
Encountered a section with no package: header,
Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/
archive.getdeb.net_ubuntu_dists_trusty—
getdeb_apps_i18n_Translation-en,
The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

How can I get this fixed?

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