apt-get error

[Michael Hipp]

Anyone know what to do about this error?

# apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   build-essential
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/6826B of archives.
After unpacking 49.2kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing 
/var/cache/apt/archives/build-essential_11.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
  files list file for package `subversion' contains empty filename
Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/build-essential_11.1_i386.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


This is on Ubuntu 6.06. My knowledge of apt-get and family isn't very 
deep. I tried 'apt-get clean' and it didn't help. I get this error about 
'subversion' no matter what I try to install or remove. Tried to remove 
and re-install subversion but get the same.

Thanks,
Michael