Broken package, failed to update

Seems like you cache is corrupted.
Try with a sudo dpkg --clear-avail && sudo apt-get update

per Koen Beek's suggestion, I did the clear-avail and the install and following is the error message I copied from my terminal window....

dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 22793 package `fam':
 error in Version string `131072:': nothing after colon in version number
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

sudo apt-get -f
or
Use Synaptics and " Broken packages " Filter.

I'm still getting the same error message:

dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 22793 package `fam':
 error in Version string `131072:': nothing after colon in version number
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

Please try:

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:
(if the system ask you a password give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter)

sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status_nogood

sudo cp /var/backups/dpkg.status.1.gz /var/lib/dpkg/

sudo gunzip -d /var/lib/dpkg/dpkg.status.1.gz

sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/dpkg.status.1 /var/lib/dpkg/status

sudo apt-get update
sido apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/status_nogood

Hope this helps

Marcobra, thank you for taking the time to help.

After some fumbling, I managed to reach" sudo apt-get update" on your list. It ran and returned the following error messsage. All of this is way beyond my skill level. Do you think this error is a result of something I did?

E: Could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - open (2 No such file or directory)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

Thanks and Best Regards

Roger

I went back and reviewed my steps. I found a step missing and have corrected. The procedure seems to have worked. Again, Thank you Marcobra for taking the time to help me.