Can't Install Skype on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit

[James Freer]

On 20 November 2014 15:16, James Freer <jessejazza3.uk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2014, Nils Kassube wrote:
>
>> Iwan Junaid wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> As libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 breaks fglrx-glx, I wonder which driver you
>>>> are using for your Radeon card. Maybe you could try to install the
>>>> packages libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libqt4-opengl:i386 and libgl1:i386
>>>> one at a time. Perhaps the error messages give some clue.
>>>>
>>>> OTOH, you could try the command which Tom H suggested earlier today
>>>> in the other thread:
>>>>
>>>> sudo aptitude install skype
>>
>>
>>> Thanks again for your help. In my BIOS there is an option to enable or
>>> disable VGA switch, so there must be two vga cards. I run  lspci -nn
>>> | grep VGA and got following output
>>>
>>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core
>>> Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 18)
>>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
>>> [AMD/ATI] Madison [Mobility Radeon HD 5650/5750 / 6530M/6550M]
>>> [1002:68c1]
>>>
>>> As i said before, after install ubuntu-desktop, i try to install the
>>> intel graphics card using intel-linux-graphics-installer command.
>>
>>
>> Hmm, I think I missed that part that you're using the intel graphics.
>>
>>> I try your suggestion to install libgl1-mesa-glx:i386
>>> libqt4-opengl:i386 libgl1:i386 and got following error again :)
>>
>>
>>> *The following packages have unmet dependencies:*
>>> * account-plugin-facebook : Depends: libaccount-plugin-generic-oauth
>>> but it is not going to be installed or*
>>> *
>>> ubuntu-system-settings-online-accounts but it is not going to be
>>> installed*
>>> * indicator-network : Depends: unity8 (>= 7.82) but it is not going to
>>> be installed*
>>> * libcheese-gtk23 : Depends: libcheese7 (>= 3.4.0) but it is not going
>>> to be installed*
>>> *                   Depends: libclutter-1.0-0 (>= 1.13.2) but it is
>>> not going to be installed*
>>> *                   Depends: libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 (>= 0.91.8) but it
>>> is not going to be installed*
>>> *                   Depends: libcogl15 (>= 1.15.8) but it is not going
>>> to be installed*
>>> * libgl1-mesa-glx : Depends: libglapi-mesa (= 10.3.0-0ubuntu2intel1)
>>> but it is not going to be installed*
>>> *                   Breaks: libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 (!=
>>> 10.3.0-0ubuntu2intel1) but 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.2 is to be installed*
>>> * libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 : Depends: libdrm2:i386 (>= 2.3.1) but it is
>>> not going to be installed*
>>> *                        Recommends: libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 (>= 7.2) but
>>> it is not going to be installed*
>>> *                        Breaks: libgl1-mesa-glx (!=
>>> 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.2) but 10.3.0-0ubuntu2intel1 is to be installed*
>>> * libqt5gui5 : Depends: libgles2-mesa (>= 7.8.1) but it is not going
>>> to be installed or*
>>> *                       libgles2*
>>> * qtdeclarative5-qtmultimedia-plugin : Depends:
>>> libqt5multimedia5-plugins but it is not going to be installed*
>>
>>
>> That's a lot of errors and I'm not sure where to continue. Maybe you
>> should really try aptitude in the hope that it suggests a solution.
>>
>> Nils
>
>
> I think the answer lies in 64 bit somehow. For no reason other than habit
> and lack of knowledge I have always used 32 bit as that works on both
> machine types understand. I've had skype on 13.10, 14.04, and 14.10 without
> problems.
>
> james

Just seen another ubuntu derivative distro's release notes on 64 bit skype.
"In 64-bit, if you're experiencing issues with Skype, install the
package 'ia32-libs'."

hth
james