[plug] dpkg woes

[Ryan]

>I upgraded recently (Woody) and then about a week later was trying to 
>purge a package when I got the following error:
>dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 6113:
>    missing package version

Never had this prob, but others have:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200112/msg01306.html

that says to try: dselect update or replacing /var/lib/dpkg/available with 
/var/lib/dpkg/available-old

Ryan