Tried your work around The last command "dpkg --purge --force-depends "libc6-dev-x32"did help in resolving the issue. Very irritating to see that one apt-get install breaks your entire system.
Got into this issue because I was trying to initialize an Android build environment on 14.04/64 bit. The AOSP advises to install g++multilib which simply breaks the system. I was not even able to install or remove any package when it was broken. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/1365375/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
