eventually I have made the decision to get rid of windows and go for ubuntu!! I had been thinking to do so for long time, but I was keeping putting it off. So, I am excited, but I have also started to hit the first issues :).
I now have a problem with skype, and that's why I am writing.
My ubuntu version is the following:
davide@Gis74:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
I installed skype a couple of weeks ago and it had worked fine until this morning. Since this morning I can no longer connect to it and I have been getting the following notification:
An error occurred, please run Package Manager from the right-click menu or apt-get in a terminal to see what is wrong. The error message was: 'Unknown Error: '' ("The cache has no package named 'skype-bin'")' This usually means that your installed packages have unmet dependencies
I did some research without too much luck. I am posting some of the commands output I seem to understand can be useful to debug the issue:
davide@Gis74:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 26 not to upgrade.
davide@Gis74:~$ sudo apt-cache policy 'skype*:*'
skype:
Installed: 4.2.0.11-0ubuntu0.12.04.2
Candidate: 4.3.0.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
Version table:
4.3.0.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 0
500 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ trusty/partner amd64 Packages
*** 4.2.0.11-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
skype4pidgin:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
skype-mid:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
pidgin-skype-dbg:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 20130613+svn660+dfsg-1
Version table:
20130613+svn660+dfsg-1 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/multiverse amd64 Packages
skype-bin:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
skype-common:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
empathy-skype:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 20130613+svn660+dfsg-1
Version table:
20130613+svn660+dfsg-1 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/multiverse amd64 Packages
pidgin-skype:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 20130613+svn660+dfsg-1
Version table:
20130613+svn660+dfsg-1 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/multiverse amd64 Packages
pidgin-skype-common:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 20130613+svn660+dfsg-1
Version table:
20130613+svn660+dfsg-1 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/multiverse amd64 Packages
I was thinking to re-install/upgrade skype but I am not sure how to do it. Can anyone please help?
Many thanks, Davide