repairing failed emacspeak install

[Glenn at home]

I tried to install Emacspeak, and it failed, and I cannot seem to run 
anything else like apt-get.
So I think I need to use dpkg, to un-install a partial install of Emacspeak, 
but I cannot figure out how to run it.
I have tried things like:
dpkg -no emacspeak
or dpkg configure emacspeak
and other such commands listed on the man page, and nothing works.
Any suggestions?
Thanks