errors with 12.04

Asked by spud1

i tried to install 12 04 and i freaked out in the middle of installing so in recovery mode I tried apt-get dist-upgrade
but i get this error

dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 44967 package 'lxbaacs':

blank line in value of field 'description'

e: sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

how do i fixed it...i did not stop the upgrade......i got the errors program installed and configuced

and i tried dpkg --configure -a

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said :
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Barry Drake (b-drake) said :
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Question: Did you try this as a clean install or were you attempting to do an upgrade? If the latter, stop everything and do a clean install from the live-CC. You will save yourself hours of grief.

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spud1 (rjyoung44) said :
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it's a upgrade

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said :
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spud1 (rjyoung44) said :
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cool it worked now I getting other errors other people are getting hehe