I still can't install/uninstall anything 
I get this error: dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 6543 package 'perl-base':
`Conflicts' field, missing package name, or garbage where package name expected
Code:
Package: perl-base
Essential: yes
Priority: required
Section: perl
Installed-Size: 4608
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Architecture: i386
Source: perl
Version: 5.10.1-8ubuntu2
Replaces: libperl5.8 (<< 5.8.0-20), libscalar-list-utils-perl, libxsloader-perl, perl (<= 5.10.0-9), perl-modules (<< 5.10.1-1)
Provides: libscalar-list-utils-perl, libxsloader-perl, perl5-base, perlapi-5.10.0, perlapi-5.10.1
Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.11), dpkg (>= 1.14.20)
Suggests: perl
Breaks: doc-base (<< 0.8.16)
Conflicts: autoconf2.13 (<< 2.13-45), libscalar-list-utils-perl (<< 1:1.18-1), libxsloader-perl (<< 0.08-1), (<< 0.8)
Filename: pool/main/p/perl/perl-base_5.10.1-8ubuntu2_i386.deb
Size: 999900
MD5sum: ec0036a4d4175d4d5c80325bdf41d317
Description: minimal Perl system
Perl is a scripting language used in many system scripts and utilities.
.
This package provides a Perl interpreter and the small subset of the
standard run-time library required to perform basic tasks. For a full
Perl installation, install "perl" (and its dependencies, "perl-modules"
and "perl-doc").
Original-Maintainer: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
SHA1: 7cc4f78be3e48aa32c3755bd1e432b2c4dcfcd0a
SHA256: 688b751b582f8c58648d716521bf05554909fcc20389085ff8ce5eda5ba520f4
Supported: 5y
Task: minimal
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