problem during upgrading

[stas khromoy]

of source

i've tried running

apt-get remove <offending pkg>
in this case it is nvidia-glx

i get the same error



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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  nvidia-glx
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 53 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 12.5MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1680 
package `module-init-tools':
 `Replaces' field, invalid package name `
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)


Me - Atlantic wrote:
>> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1680 
>> package `module-init-tools':
>> `Replaces' field, invalid package name `
>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
>>
>>     
> Did you run apt-get update first?
>   

> And are you running under sudo?
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