It bit me trying to get an ARM cross compiler setup going. Kinda scary when your package manager goes wonky and it starts looking like there's no way out. Thanks to lots of things like this(see below) there was a way out: sudo dpkg --purge --force-depends "gcc-multilib" sudo dpkg --purge --force-depends "lib32z1-dev" sudo dpkg --purge --force-depends "libc6-dev-x32"
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to eglibc in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1365375 Title: package libc6-dev-i386 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/include/gnu', which is also in package libc6 -dev-amd64 2.19-0ubuntu6.3 Status in eglibc package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: apt-get install gcc-multilib broke it! ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: libc6-dev-i386 (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-35.62-generic 3.13.11.6 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-35-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Sep 4 08:50:46 2014 DpkgTerminalLog: Preparing to unpack .../libc6-dev-i386_2.19-0ubuntu6.3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libc6-dev-i386 (2.19-0ubuntu6.3) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev-i386_2.19-0ubuntu6.3_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/include/gnu', which is also in package libc6-dev-amd64 2.19-0ubuntu6.3 DuplicateSignature: package:libc6-dev-i386:(not installed):trying to overwrite '/usr/include/gnu', which is also in package libc6-dev-amd64 2.19-0ubuntu6.3 ErrorMessage: trying to overwrite '/usr/include/gnu', which is also in package libc6-dev-amd64 2.19-0ubuntu6.3 SourcePackage: eglibc Title: package libc6-dev-i386 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/include/gnu', which is also in package libc6-dev-amd64 2.19-0ubuntu6.3 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/1365375/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
