Skype Help | Ubuntu 12.10

[AleksOne]

Like a noob, i tried installing skype numerous ways, non of them worked. Today i notice there is skype on Ubuntu software centre, when i try install i get this error message:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

skype: Depends: skype-bin but it is not going to be installed

How can i install skype ? what do i need to do?

Im a noob. sorry. D:

[moribashi]

Got to skype.com and download Ubuntu 10.04 32 or 64-bit version of deb file. Double click it and it is done.

[AleksOne]

Got to skype.com and download Ubuntu 10.04 32 or 64-bit version of deb file. Double click it and it is done.

I get this :

Selecting previously unselected package skype.
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Unpacking skype (from .../skype-ubuntu_4.0.0.8-1_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of skype:
skype depends on ia32-libs; however:
Package ia32-libs is not installed.

dpkg: error processing skype (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...

[mikewhatever]

Let us see the output of dpkg -l | grep skype . It looks like skype-bin conflicts with something you've installed previously. Have you undone the previous installation attempts?

[AleksOne]

Let us see the output of dpkg -l | grep skype . It looks like skype-bin conflicts with something you've installed previously. Have you undone the previous installation attempts?

How would i do that ? : P and no i havn't how would i undo prev. installation attempts?

[mikewhatever]

Open a terminal window (ctrl-alt-t), copy/paste the command and hit Enter. How exactly have you tried installing skype?

[buckyaustin]

You should remove the skype installs that have failed before in the past before trying to install a new working one.

So run this in terminal, "sudo apt-get remove skype". Then download the correct skype off the skype website. This should install without any problems.

[AleksOne]

Open a terminal window (ctrl-alt-t), copy/paste the command and hit Enter. How exactly have you tried installing skype?

You should remove the skype installs that have failed before in the past before trying to install a new working one.

So run this in terminal, "sudo apt-get remove skype". Then download the correct skype off the skype website. This should install without any problems.

rc skype 4.0.0.8-1 amd64 Skype


I get that when I type: dpkg -l | grep skype


And ive tried to install it off skype.com like the guy at the top suggested, and ive tried to get it from the softwere centre, both dont work






When I type: sudo apt-get remove skype


I get :
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'skype' is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
lib32asound2 lib32gcc1 lib32stdc++6 libc6-i386
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.


Is that right?

[mikewhatever]

Try something like this from a terminal window:

sudo apt-get purge skype

sudo apt-get --purge autoremove

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install skype

Please post the output of the last one.

[AleksOne]

Paste them individually or in one block?