this saved me from the trying to overwrite '/usr/include/bits' problem: sudo apt-get purge gcc-multilib lib32z1-dev libc6-dev-x32 libc6-dev-amd64 g++-multilib gcc-6-multilib g++-6-multilib. I'll probably have other problems down the line, but at least apt functions again for now.
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