error when trying to update.....

[uniqueone-85]

i was trying to update and i ran into this error.....

dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 34104 package 'avahi-daemon':
`Depends' field, reference to `dbus': version contains ` '
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

any on have any idea what this means......any help will be really appreciated.

[frup]

Is that in the terminal from sudo apt-get update or is update manager spitting that out?

[uniqueone-85]

it does to both update manager and when i try it in terminal

[frup]

This might not help, but try reconfiguring dpkg. Looks like the problem is something to do with dbus. Have you manually installed anything or done anything unusual?

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a

[uniqueone-85]

hmmm not that i can remember i will try to reconfigure tho

[uniqueone-85]

ok i tried it and got the same message...

dpkg-query: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 34104 package 'avahi-daemon':
`Depends' field, reference to `dbus': version contains ` '
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: acpi-support is not installed

i am wondering if i may have messed something up when i did my last update. I had to us these commands to get ever thing working:

cd /var/lib/dpkg

sudo cp status-old status

[frup]

Well try

cd /var/lib/dpkg

sudo cp available-old available

[uniqueone-85]

ok now that i did that i have a new problem......it is saying that i have a broken package. which is ubuntu desktop.....

[uniqueone-85]

never mind jus had to run apt-get install -f command....that did the trick

[uniqueone-85]

thanks so much for your help....jus one more question when i run

cd /var/lib/dpkg

sudo cp status-old status

do i also run

sudo cp available-old available