thanks.
i tried and got this:

~ $ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 65 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' for reading: No such file or directory
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
~ $
~ $ sudo dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' for reading: No such file or directory
~ $



... and i am still stuck-up :-(