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i'm having problens installing or upgrading skype in ubuntu 12.04 x86-64 after recent skype upgrade.

sudo apt-get install skype

it says skype depends on skype-bin and I'm having held packages. I purged skype abd skype-bin and all it's dependancies but still no go. Why does it happen on LTS which I use in my office??

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    try sudo apt-get install -f
    – Web-E
    Nov 22, 2012 at 17:47
  • of no use. It runs ok.
    – net cat
    Nov 22, 2012 at 18:13
  • after recent apt-get update everything goes fine. skype is installed. The question why does it happen with LTS distro recommended by Canonical to run at critical machines still persists.
    – net cat
    Nov 22, 2012 at 18:17
  • damn, now the microphone is not workingALSA lib conf.c:3314:(snd_config_hooks_call) Cannot open shared library ALSA lib dlmisc.c:254:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so
    – net cat
    Nov 22, 2012 at 18:21
  • @netcat, I think you should add an Update section in your question body, explaining your current state and actual question.
    – saji89
    Jan 24, 2013 at 9:32

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Errors like absence of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so means that Skype needs libasound2-plugins:i386.

So my recipe that helps me is to run the following command:

apt-get install libasound2-plugins:i386
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I had a similar problem with 12.10. It seems a dependency problem.

I simply installed skype-bin first and then skype and everything worked perfectly.

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This worked for me. (the skype downloaded from the website it self directly gave me errors. http://xchamitha.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/install-skype-in-ubuntu-1304.html

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    Jul 28, 2013 at 10:19

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