william@C2D:/$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-image-2.6.17-11-generic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/23.0MB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1:
EOF after field name `'
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
william@C2D:/$