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I have installed the Ubuntu 12.04 (multiarch) version of Skype from the official Skype website, and yet when I launch it, I cannot see the little Skype icon in the Unity Panel as I have seen it on other machines. I have even gone into my Skype setting and asked it to minimize to the system tray on startup, and still I get nothing.

Why is this? And how can I fix it? On the other machine where I have seen this working Skype was installed through the command:

sudo apt-get install skype

And not through downloading and installing the .deb file from the Skype website like I did, could this be causing the difference? And if so, should I uninstall Skype, and try installing it from the partner repository? Or can this not be what is making the difference?


OS Information:

Description:    Ubuntu 15.04
Release:    15.04

Package Information:

Skype about section

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Installing Skype from the website does not install these additional dependencies:

  • libdbusmenu-qt2:i386
  • sni-qt:i386

One of which (sni-qt:i386) is needed for this functionality, so either just install this additional dependency with:

sudo apt-get install sni-qt:i386

Or replace your current Skype installation with the one from the repository which will install the extra stuff and remove the Skype you installed from the website (which is known as skype:i386):

sudo apt-get install skype
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  • It is not installed, you could solve?
    – Roknauta
    Jul 17, 2015 at 16:51
  • @ParanoidPanda: Well, you'd better drop skype-bin from that list. skype-bin is only involved when installing from the Canonical partner repository. Jul 17, 2015 at 17:17