Comment 10 for bug 1784065

Had same issue with 14.04 to 16.04 upgrade, I had i386 and amd64 so this worked for me, just doing amd64 gave me an error:
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.18.4ubuntu1_amd64.deb
ar -x dpkg_1.18.4ubuntu1_amd64.deb
tar -xvf data.tar.gz
wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/2.48.2-0ubuntu3/+build/15131273/+files/libglib2.0-0_2.48.2-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb
wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/2.48.2-0ubuntu3/+build/15131276/+files/libglib2.0-0_2.48.2-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
sudo ./usr/bin/dpkg -i libglib2.0-0_2.48.2-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb libglib2.0-0_2.48.2-0ubuntu3_i386.deb