Update lists not working

[glin22]

The following is taken from this link:

It seems like your /var/lib/dpkg/status file is corrupted. So try to replace the current status file with the old one.
sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status.bak
sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status

If the above doesn't work, do a web search on "Error occurred while processing samba-libs (NewVersion2)" to see what you get.

Ooooh doggie ! I did your procedure and am back in business !! Machine seems to be working fine now, did a bunch of updates, everything went through well !! Glad I didn't have to go through the whole install process all over again !

Thanks for the tip and to all of the folks who gave help.

Glin22