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Unable to install Skype on 12.10 64bit
So for the past 2 days i've been trying to install skype and none of the solutions i find seem to be working
if i download the file from the skype website the software centre says
Wrong architecture 'i386'
if i run:
sudo apt-get install skype
it gives me:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
skype : Depends: skype-bin but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
and i have tried the following commands at some time or other during the search on the internet. (not necessarily after each other)
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get --purge remove skype*
sudo apt-get -f install
As for system data:
uname -a; lsb_release -a
returns:
Linux ubuntu 3.5.0-19-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 13 17:48:01 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10
Codename: quantal
