Package: skype Version: 4.3.0.37-1 Severity: important skype fails to start up when required libraries are missing. Running from the command line:
$ skype skype: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory libGL.so.1 is provided by libgl1-mesa-glx (or more specifically for skype:i386 it's libgl1-mesa-glx:i386) libgl1-mesa-glx is not listed in the skype package's dependencies. So it should be added, Depends: libgl1-mesa-glx -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages skype depends on: ii libasound2-plugins 1.1.0-1 ii libc6 2.21-7 ii libgcc1 1:5.3.1-8 ii libpulse0 7.1-2 ii libqt4-dbus 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5 ii libqt4-network 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5 ii libqt4-xml 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5 ii libqtcore4 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5 ii libqtgui4 4:4.8.7+dfsg-5 ii libqtwebkit4 2.3.4.dfsg-6 ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.2d-1 ii libstdc++6 5.3.1-8 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1 ii libxss1 1:1.2.2-1 ii libxv1 2:1.0.10-1+b1 skype recommends no packages. skype suggests no packages. -- no debconf information