Chrome – “package list or status file could not be parsed or opened”

Once in a while while working with Ubuntu, I’ll get this error in the top right corner. Some of the lines it says are:

• An error occurred, Please run Package Manager…
• Error: Opening the cache
• Encountered a section with no Package: header… dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_main
• This package list or status file could not be parsed or opened
• This usually means that your installed packages have unmet dependencies.

To clean up this error I use the following commands:

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

More details can be found here.