This seemed to do the trick:

dpkg --clear-avail
apt-get update

On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 06:39:24PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote:
> I must have really messed something up. Running either dselect or apt-get
> gives me this:
> 
> E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1)
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
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