Can't Install Skype on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit

[James Freer]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2014, Nils Kassube wrote:

> James Freer wrote:
>> On Fri, 21 Nov 2014, Iwan Junaid wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:51 PM, James Freer
>>> <jessejazza3.uk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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'."
>
>>> trying to install ia32-libs i got this
>
>>> E: Package 'ia32-libs' has no installation candidate
>
> The package ia32-libs is obsolete because *Ubuntu nowadays has its
> multiarch support [1].
>
>> After I saw your post I installed Skype as I hadn't got round to it
>> since upgrading to xubuntu 14.10. It seemed to work fine but it was
>> 32 bit xubuntu..
>>
>> I saw that post on Mint. I thought I'd try their Mint xcfe on my spare
>> machine... the install failed.
>>
>> Skype claim the download is dual arch... which it obviously isn't.
>> Those packages are 32 bit so a 32 bit ubuntu install would seem to be
>> a solution.
>
> The skype version available for Ubuntu 14.04 from the Canonical partner
> repository is certainly a 32 bit application, that's why there are many
> i386 libs necessary.

I used the download from skype.com which is 10.04 32 bit or 12.04 multiarch

> However I could install that package on my 64 bit
> machine yesterday. So it should be possible to run skype on a 64 bit
> Ubuntu 14.04 system. The OP has a problem of package dependency
> conflicts for some reason.

I don't follow you. The 12.04 certainly works on 32 bit and I am using xubuntu 
14.10. It would seem that 64 it is best avoided.

> If he installed the 32 bit version of Ubuntu
> there might be the same dependency problems.
>
> Nils

james