Apt/dpkg...screwed up bad!

["David J. Kanter" <djkanter@nwu.edu>]

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.

What I did to get here was get the latest afterstep rpm, convert it to a deb
with alien, then dpkg -i the deb. Nothing was working (in terms of starting
the new afterstep) so I removed the package with dselect.

Now, all the problems.

What can I do?
-- 
David J. Kanter
djkanter@nwu.edu