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I am using ubuntu 11.10 64bit,
skype was working however after running sudo apt-get autoremove skype is throwing

skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

How can I fix this?

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Looks like you're missing a library file. The program apt-file can be used to find which package provides a certain file. (dpkg -S does this too, but does not work for packages which are not installed)

apt-file search libXss.so yields:

ia32-libs: /usr/lib32/libXss.so
ia32-libs: /usr/lib32/libXss.so.1
ia32-libs: /usr/lib32/libXss.so.1.0.0
libxss-dev: /usr/lib/libXss.so
libxss1: /usr/lib/libXss.so.1
libxss1: /usr/lib/libXss.so.1.0.0
libxss1-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libXss.so.1.0.0

You need to install the libxss1 package for that library. If you're running the 32-bit version of Skype, ia32-libs needs to be installed instead of libxss1.

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worked for me:

echo foreign-architecture i386 | sudo tee /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch
sudo apt-get install libxss1:i386 libqtcore4:i386 libqt4-dbus:i386
sudo apt-get install libqtgui4:i386

got from: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ia32-libs/+bug/830440

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This worked for me although I had to run sudo apt-get -f install after the first line and get skype 32-bit from the Skype web-page. – Kristofer Sep 5 '11 at 7:44

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