task-cross-* dpkg errors?

[Allen Curtis]

I am trying to install the task-cross packages and they failed. The 
other problem is that the package database appears to be messed up and 
I can not install anything. How do you fix this? I am new to Debian. 
All the obvious things like "apt-get -f -m remove task-cross-arm" fail.

TIA
===========  MESSAGES =========
Setting up libstdc++2.10-dev-arm (2.95.2-12e4) ...
sh: line 1: /usr/share/info/iostream.info.gz: No such file or directory
install-info(/usr/share/info/iostream.info.gz): read gzip -cd 
</usr/share/info/iostream.info.gz |: 256
dpkg: error processing libstdc++2.10-dev-arm (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libstdc++2.10-dev-arm
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Ack!  Something bad happened while installing packages.  Trying to 
recover:
Setting up libstdc++2.10-dev-arm (2.95.2-12e4) ...
sh: line 1: /usr/share/info/iostream.info.gz: No such file or directory
install-info(/usr/share/info/iostream.info.gz): read gzip -cd 
</usr/share/info/iostream.info.gz |: 256
dpkg: error processing libstdc++2.10-dev-arm (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libstdc++2.10-dev-arm
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