I found my /var/lib/dpkg/status file was somehow corrupted, and that a temporary workaround is to replace /var/lib/dpkg/status with /var/lib/dpkg/status-old.
I found my /var/lib/ dpkg/status file was somehow corrupted, and that a temporary workaround is to replace /var/lib/ dpkg/status with /var/lib/ dpkg/status- old.