How can I fix "dpkg: error: parsing file"?

Posted by Colin Alcock on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Colin Alcock
Published on 2013-10-10T09:23:53Z Indexed on 2014/08/24 16:29 UTC
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... and what is sudo and where/how would I type the scripts I've seen in some related answers?

Yes I am very new to Linux, and am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

All updates are failing with

installArchives() failed: dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' 
near line 2 package 'libgwibber-gtk2': 
value for `status' field not allowed in this context Error in function:

I need to know where and how I would input some of the sudo scripts etc.

Any help appreciated, trying to get off of windows....

Colin

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