Why does the upgrade-manager in precise insist on removing skype?
After upgrading to Precise, I noticed that Skype was uninstalled. But it was easily fixed by downloading the deb from Skype's site.
But now, at each update via-update manager, it says the skype package should have been removed and I need to remove it before proceeding?
Is this a bug? Any workaround?
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and report it. No need for twitter or web pages with reply boxes. Jus report bugs. If it isn't a bug, the bug managers will tell you and close the bug report.
Skype is not an Ubuntu package, it's from the skype website...
So, not a bug. I found out that it depends on ia32-libs which are replace by multiarch support, so basically, the skype package is broken.
Hey,
it's a dep of ia32-libs (will be a transition package in no time imho) and it's been held at least this morning.
When ia32-libs-multiarch is installable again, skype won't be removed until ia32-libs will go away forever.
Regards,
\sh
Uhm isnt ia32-libs still a package in precise? I'm pretty sure it is and is meant to work in a transitional fashion, depending on the newer multilib package logic.
And its not just skype that is impacted. google talk's .deb will be too. There are a lot of 3rd party vendor debian packages that will break unless the ia32-lib package transition is worked out. This is filable for sure. and is related to this bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ia32-libs/+bug/914034
whatever is preventing ia32-lib to be installed needs to be address. It should be installable and should pull in the new multilib based package(s) as part of the install.
-jef