Re: can't install skype 4.3 on jessie

[Mark Carroll <mtbc@ixod.org>]

David Zelinsky <dzpost@dedekind.net> writes:

> Since Skype 4.2 stopped working, I've been trying unsuccessfully to
> install 4.3 on my amd64 laptop running jessie.  The problem seems to be
> a dependency on libmp3lame0:i386, which has some issue with conflicting
> versions numbers between the :amd64 and :i386 architectures.  But maybe
> I'm not understanding something.  Anyway, how can I get around this and
> get Skype to work?

There's probably a much better way to solve this with multi-arch, but I
took the easy route of installing Skype inside a 32-bit chroot (with the
help of schroot) and that is working just fine.

-- Mark