dpkg error preventing install or upgrade

[Masterjuggler]

This is the result:

Code:

$ sudo ls -la /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/
total 16
drwx------ 2 _apt root  4096 Nov 10 01:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 12288 Nov 10 01:06 ..

This says "total 16" which I'm assuming means the directory has a total of 16 files. There is nothing in the directory when viewing with a file manager or without using -la.