On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 01:49:04PM -0000, Rainer Rohde wrote: > It's really frustrating ... with each new update, the i386 libs needed > for Skype are removed and Skype won't work anymore. I then re-install > the required libs manually, and - lo and behold - the next Ubuntu > upgrade tosses them out again. What's going on?
You are not using the correct skype:i386 package for oneiric. If you were, these libraries would not be removed on upgrade without also removing skype itself (because they are dependencies). Information about how to correctly install skype on Ubuntu 11.10 can be found at: http://askubuntu.com/questions/7498/how-do-i-install-skype/62457 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830440 Title: skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ia32-libs/+bug/830440/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs