Problem on running aptitude/apt-get upgrade

[Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com>]

Hi folks,


Debian Etch - fresh installation


$ sudo aptitude upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  linux-image-2.6.18-6-486
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/16.2MB of archives. After unpacking 1839kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 8090
package `gtk2-engines-pixbuf':
 `Depends' field, reference to `libglib2.0-0': version contains ` '
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 8090
package `gtk2-engines-pixbuf':
 `Depends' field, reference to `libglib2.0-0': version contains ` '
* end *

Please advise how to fix it.   TIA


Remark:

$ sudo apt-get upgrade
same result


B.R.
Stephen L

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