Public bug reported:
I activated Canonical Partners, but Skype did not show up when I used
gnome-software to search for it.
I have a theory (unconfirmed):
I used a 64 bits Xenial, with only amd64 architecture enabled. While the
.deb package skype is amd64, it's a meta package. The skype-bin package,
with the important files including the .desktop file, is i386.
So possibly skype would have showed up in gnome-software if I had first
enabled i386 with
dpkg --add-architecture i386
OTOH, even if that's the case, I don't think it ought to be necessary.
When using Synaptic, skype was shown.
A possible fix (workaround?) would be to move the .desktop file from
skype-bin to skype.
Anyway, I could successfully install Skype from command line, and then
it showed up in gnome-software. However, bug #1563322 applies to Skype
too.
** Affects: gnome-software (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: skype (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Skype not shown as installation candidate
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