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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 '12 at 17:47
of no use. It runs ok. – net cat Nov 22 '12 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 '12 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 '12 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 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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