[ubuntu-uk] Stuff appearing in Terminal, I dont know what it is......

[John MM]

Ok, to cap, I had an error this morning, and was advised to delete my 
/var/lib/dpkg/status, which I did. Problem is, it left with me a worse 
error, and me being unable to update anything. Suffice to say, I now 
have an error saying 'InstallArchives failed' with 141 updates in the 
Update manaer, and no way of updating, Anybody know why that should be?