Skype not installable on trusty

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2016-01-07 07:45, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> on two trusty installations in my family skype is not installable
> anymore. This blocked updates and further package installations on those
> machines. Upon searching the internet for more clues I saw that others
> had the problem too.
> 
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/skype/+bug/1523060
> 
> I couldn't quite figure what the problem was, but it looked like
> different available versions on i386 and amd64? Does anyone have an idea
> what the problem might be and how to fix it?

Skype is only available for 32 bits, so if you have 64 bits
installations, you need to enable multiarch:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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