Am Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:27:25 +1000
schrieb Jonathan Wheelhouse <jonathan.wheelhouse@gmail.com>:
> Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Mon,22.Jun.09, 15:12:18, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I used to have skype installed but I think a recent dist-upgrade
> >> got rid of it (now my wife _really_ wants it back).
> >>
> >> /etc/apt/sources.list has
> >> deb http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64 ./
> >>
> >> # aptitude install skype
> >>
> >> produces
> >>
> >> The following packages are BROKEN:
> >> libc6-i386
> >> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> >> ia32-libs{a} ia32-libs-gtk{a} lib32asound2{a} lib32gcc1{a}
> >> lib32ncurses5{a} lib32stdc++6{a} lib32z1{a} skype 0 packages
> >> upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need
> >> to get 55.8MB of archives. After unpacking 123MB will be used. The
> >> following packages have unmet dependencies: libc6-i386: Breaks:
> >> ia32-libs (<= 2.7) but 2.7 is to be installed. Breaks:
> >> ia32-libs-gtk (<= 2.7) but 2.7 is to be installed. Breaks:
> >> lib32asound2 (<= 1.0.20-2) but 1.0.20-2 is to be installed.
> >> Breaks: lib32ncurses5 (<= 5.7+20090523-1) but 5.7+20090523-1 is to
> >> be installed. Breaks: lib32z1 (<= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13) but
> >> 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 is to be installed.
> > ^^^^^^
> > Because it wants to install those libs libc6-i386 will be broken.
>
> Sorry for the delay in responding (a sick child but better now).
>
> OK, but libc6-i386 is not installed. And I (or rather my wife) needs
> skype installed. I'm not sure what to do now.
You could try to unpack the statically linked i386 version of skype in
you home directory and start it out of a shell. This could be a
workaround until you can install the package but I really don't know if
libc6-i386 is needed for the statically linked version too.
http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-static
Andreas
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