Public bug reported: When installing Skype on Quantal 64bit, apt-get can't find the skype-bin package.
Users get the following output: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=12312864&postcount=12 http://askubuntu.com/questions/192425/installing-skype-on-12-04-64-bit-causes-errors ***** sudo apt-get install skype Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: 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. ****** It seems to be a packaging problem, as skype-bin is not present the 'http://archive.canonical.com/dists/quantal/partner/binary- amd64/Packages.bz2' archive. ** Affects: skype (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Attachment added: "Packages-5" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1070329/+attachment/3410389/+files/Packages-5 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1070329 Title: skype : Depends: skype-bin but it is not installable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/skype/+bug/1070329/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
