Skype woes

[Colin Law]

On 24 August 2014 15:41, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> ..
> Karl, have you run
> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> If not then do so and then try
> apt-cache policy skype
> again.  It should show 4.3.0.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
>
> If it does then try to install again
> sudo apt-cache install skype
> It should install skype and skype-bin
>

After update and dist-upgrade, before the install, run
sudo apt-get autoremove
to help to make sure there is nothing left lying around.

Colin