Skype not installable on trusty

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2016-01-15 17:27, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> 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

Or possibly you hit https://launchpad.net/bugs/1372846

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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