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I am getting this error parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 14788

Asked by Nirmal

PLs help me, i am getting this error for every installtion,

pkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 14788 package 'gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly':
 `Depends' field, invalid package name `libmpeg2-': character `' not allowed (only letters, digits and characters `-+._')
Error in function:
SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 14788 package 'gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly':
 `Depends' field, invalid package name `libmpeg2-': character `' not allowed (only letters, digits and characters `-+._')

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Thomas Krüger (thkrueger) said : 		#1

Please follow step 5 from this guide and report the result:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PackageManagerTroubleshootingProcedure

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

or my way:

cd $HOME
wget https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8850924/fixpackage
chmod +x ./fixpackage
sudo ./fixpackage

Probably easier than copying each command in turn.

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Nirmal (nirmal198939) said : 		#3

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.