Comment 21 for bug 1300211

grog, this does not work for me on 16.04.

# apt remove binutils
[...]
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  binutils binutils-arm-linux-gnueabi build-essential clang clang-3.8 dpkg-dev
  g++ g++-5 g++-5-multilib g++-multilib gcc gcc-5 gcc-5-multilib gcc-multilib
  lcov
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 15 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
After this operation, 157 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
[...]
# apt install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi gcc-multilib
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi : Depends: gcc-5-arm-linux-gnueabi (>= 5.3.1-3~)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.