dpkg:error:parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 1146 package 'python-minimal'

Solution 1:

It looks like there is a typo in the Python post-installation script. This may have been caused by an Internet error of some kind...

Try this:

(Press CTRL-ALT-T for the Terminal)

sudo apt-get purge python-minimal
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-minimal
sudo apt-get upgrade

If that doesn't work, then try using Aptitude instead of apt-get.

If that doesn't work, comment and tell me what's going wrong.