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root@lap425:~# apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
 libwireshark3 libwiretap3 libwsutil3 re2c
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
 libc6-dev-i386
The following packages will be upgraded:
 libc6-dev-i386
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
8 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 1,152 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main libc6-dev-i386 amd64 2.19-0ubuntu6.13 [1,152 kB]
Fetched 1,152 kB in 2s (531 kB/s)        
(Reading database ... 322294 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libc6-dev-i386_2.19-0ubuntu6.13_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libc6-dev-i386 (2.19-0ubuntu6.13) over (2.19-0ubuntu6.11) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev-i386_2.19-0ubuntu6.13_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/include/sys/uio.h', which is also in package libc6-dev-amd64 2.19-0ubuntu6.13
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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The error says, that it cannot unpack the package libc6-dev-i386, because one file already exists from a different package and apt-get will not overwrite existing files.

trying to overwrite '/usr/include/sys/uio.h', which is also in package libc6-dev-amd64 2.19-0ubuntu6.13

You can try deleting one of the offending packages:

sudo dpkg --force-overwrite --purge libc6-dev-i386

or 

sudo dpkg --force-overwrite --purge libc6-dev-amd64

If both packages are needed by other software packages that you want to keep, you could try installing the new package and force overwriting files as described in this answer:

sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-overwrite" install libc6-dev-i386

Note: this may lead to problems with the first installed package.

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