I am no able to install any package of openstack due to dpkg error, what should i do?

Question

dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 41363 package 'openstack-dashboard':
 'Depends' field, missing architecture name, or garbage where architecture name expected
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)


Status of /var/lib/dpkg/status

Package: openstack-dashboard
Status: install ok half-configured
Priority: extra
Section: net
Installed-Size: 15121
Maintainer: Chuck Short <zulcss@ubuntu.com>
Architecture: all
Source: horizon
Version: 1:2014.2-0ubuntu1~cloud0
Config-Version: 1:2014.2-0ubuntu1~cloud0
Depends: adduser, apache2 | httpd, libapache2-mod-wsgi (>= 2.3), python-django-horizon (= 1:2014.2-0ubuntu1~cloud0), python: (>= 2.7.1-0ubuntu2)
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2)

Answer 1

There might be an error in the package itself, but that's unlikely.

Uninstall and purge the package:

sudo apt-get remove --purge openstack-dashboard

Then run:

sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get check

Then try installing again via

sudo apt-get install openstack-dashboard