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It is supposed to be easy process:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ $(lsb_release -sc) partner"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install skype

But on the first line dpkg --add-architecture i386 I get an error

dpkg: error: unknown option --add-architecture

Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*];
Use `dselect' or `aptitude' for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;

Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through `less' or `more' !

How to solve this so that I can finally install Skype?

EDIT

In synaptic I get error The following packages have unmet dependencies:skype: Depends: skype-bin but it is a virtual package

If I try to install skype-bin, I get error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:  skype-bin:i386 : Depends: libqt4-dbus:i386 (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libqt4-network:i386 (>= 4:4.8.0) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libqt4-xml:i386 (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libqtcore4:i386 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libqtgui4:i386 (>= 4:4.8.0) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libqtwebkit4:i386 (>= 2.2~2011week36) but it is not going to be installed
                  Recommends: sni-qt:i386 but it is not going to be installed
                  Recommends: libasound2-plugins:i386 but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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  • @Braiam Solved by changing repository server to main one (instead of my country's one). Unbelievable!!!!!
    – ubuntico
    Nov 24, 2013 at 20:53
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If you get stuck try changing server to "Main server" instead of your country's servers. When I did this, Skype installed flawlessly from the Software Center.

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  • I would blame that your country server doesn't have the i386 packages. Can you add it for future reference?
    – Braiam
    Nov 24, 2013 at 20:56
  • What do you mean by saying "Can you add it for future reference"?
    – ubuntico
    Nov 24, 2013 at 20:59
  • This does not solve the problem for me... Seems that the i386 packages libqtwebkit4:i386 and libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 are still missing.
    – Karel Lenc
    Jul 30, 2014 at 12:44

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