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My skype is crashing silently. I tried to follow advice here:

What to do when Skype freezes silently?

and here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11653257

But it suggests giving permission to a file called libpulsecore-1.0.so

I looked in /usr/lib/ and it wasn't there.

I tried sudo apt-cache search libpulsecore-1.0.so and found nothing.

The tab-autocomplete after typing libpuls also didn't return anything, so I believe it is not installed.

I found nothing with which libpulsecore-1.0.so and had no google hits for how to find the file, or which package it was in.

How do I install this file? Sound otherwise works. (Skype even used to work fine until a couple of weeks ago.)

I'm running 11.10.

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  • You don't say what version you're running... Mar 5, 2012 at 17:37
  • I'm running Oneiric. Mar 5, 2012 at 17:39

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"looked in /usr/lib/ and it wasn't there."
okay...

"I tried sudo apt-cache search libpulsecore-1.0.so and found nothing."

apt-cache search runs as non-root just fine.
It flags mostly on words in the description and words in the package name

"which libpulsecore-1.0.so"

which is for binaries you run from the CLI
to show 'which' will be executed first with your path settings

to find out if you have it:

sudo updatedb && locate libpulsecore | grep '.so'

to find out what provides it:

dpkg -S libpulsecore

Looks like the base pulseaudio package on 11.10 which is what I'm running for production until 12.04 goes stable in about a month.

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio

Done.
EDIT:
if it says you have pulseaudio but you don't have the .so you need a --reinstall switch on the apt-get line

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  • Yep, good point. I had poor diagnostics and was looking incorrectly---it was there the whole time. Thanks! Mar 5, 2012 at 18:12
  • not a problem...you'll notice I didn't put the version number in the searches. this is in case it changes from 1.0 to 2.0 or whatever so you can still find it if there's a version change Mar 6, 2012 at 1:30

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