package manager problem
Greetings and Happy holiday, to all on this fine Winter Solstice day,
My Dell D830 laptop has kubuntu 11.10 installed on it. It runs nicely for the most part. Except for a problem with package management. I have been searching this site extensively and am unsure as to a resolution to my issue.
Currently, When I try to install software, apt-get returns an error regarding a duplicate Manager of a package in /var/lib/dpkg/status file. I have examined the file and it appears to be corrupted. When I look at it in in kate as super user there are several lines of in decipherable non-ascii characters. If I try to delete them, nothing happens. The cursor won't move and text will not be deleted. This all attempted as Super user (kdesudo kate) and as sudo su - no go. So my question is:
How can I clean this up?
Thanks In Advance
M2N-SLI with AMD Phenom II X4 940 8GB of 400Mhz 128bit DDR2 RAM, an Evga GTX560ti Video card Phoenix Bios Rev. 5001
Kubuntu 12.10 (do-release-upgrade)
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