first off ive been useing the package manager all day searching and downloading and install packages. so i got tried of opening and closeing the window so i used apt-get command to get a gcc compiler i installed it and then the next time i tried to open the package manager i get this message

"E: Read error - read (5 Input/output error)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened."

i tried fixing broken packages that didnt work i tried reloading the repositories that didnt work i tried useing apt-get and that didnt work came up with same error messages. so my questions are what could of caused this problem, how to fix it and how to advoid it in the future? any help would be apperciated if you need any more info plz ask ok thanks

we ned to see the entire output not just a little piece of it.

that was the entire output i clicked the arrow that drops down the details of the error thats wat was there. after u close the window it shuts off

weird
ok we are left to guess.

in the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf

try puttng the line
APT::Cache-Limit 20000000;

or from the command line use
apt-get update -o APT::Cache-Limit=20000000

bottom line might be to just reduce the number of sources you have in your /etc/apt/sources.list

This happened to me, I just opened up aptitude and cleared the cache and did apt-get update