Can't Install Skype on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit

[Iwan Junaid]

dpkg --print-architecture shows amd64

dpkg --print-foreign-architectures shows i386

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Iwan Junaid <iwan.junaid at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Here is what i've done so far:
> >
> > - I install ubuntu using the ubuntu server. This is because my primary
> ATI
> > Radeon VGA card is broken. So i can't install ubuntu using ubuntu-desktop
> > iso, because it always use my broken VGA card to initialize the
> installer.
> > - After successfully setup core packages for ubuntu server, i choose to
> > install ubuntu-desktop and use intel-installer to use my seconday VGA
> card.
> > - Then after installing more packages, i try to install skype by enabling
> > partner repository using apt-get method:
> >
> > sudo apt-get install skype
> >
> > but i got following error:
> >
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> > or been moved out of Incoming.
> > The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> >
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >  skype : Depends: skype-bin
> > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> >
> > Does anybody know how to deal with this issue ?
>
> What's the output of:
>
> dpkg --print-architecture
> and
> dpkg --print-foreign-architectures
>
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