Package is in a very bad inconsistent state [duplicate]

I tried many things and then this worked!

sudo dpkg --remove --force-all (packagename)

even after this if your problem is not solved then find all the files in /var/lib named with your package name as a prefix and use

sudo chmod 777 filename

with all of them and then create a copy of them (in case if something goes wrong) and then use

sudo rm filename

to delete of them and then run this again

sudo dpkg --remove --force-all gcc-4.8-base:i386

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