[ralphy]

Jerry,

It seems I cannot install Skype on x64 systems. Can you run a test in a 64 machine and see if you can get skype installed via Lite Software?

ps. It works fine in x32 version, just not in x64.

[valtam]

Testing...

[valtam]

No issues here on 64bit after full testing. Control file shows same names too, first place I looked for differences.

[ralphy]

Well, your x64 system is actually doing something that escapes my understanding... or maybe my system is?

ralphy@linuxlite:~$ apt-cache policy skype skype-bin
skype:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4.3.0.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
  Version table:
    4.3.0.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 500
        500 http://archive.canonical.com xenial/partner amd64 Packages
skype-bin:i386:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4.3.0.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
  Version table:
    4.3.0.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 500
        500 http://archive.canonical.com xenial/partner i386 Packages
ralphy@linuxlite:~$

root@linuxlite:/var/log# apt install skype-bin 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-bin:i386 : Depends: libqt4-dbus:i386 (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libqt4-network:i386 (>= 4:4.8.0) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libqt4-xml:i386 (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libqtcore4:i386 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libqtgui4:i386 (>= 4:4.8.0) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libqtwebkit4:i386 (>= 2.2~2011week36) but it is not going to be installed
                  Recommends: sni-qt:i386 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@linuxlite:/var/log#

But I certainly have no held packages in my system and it is fully up-to-date

root@linuxlite:/var/log# dpkg --get-selections | grep hold
root@linuxlite:/var/log#

Did you have to enable MultiArch in your system by any chance? I can't think of anything else at this point.

[valtam]

My test was in a VM, I'll try on actual hardware soon and report back.

[valtam]

Fresh install to hardware (laptop), full updates, no Skype issue as described.

[valtam]

In addition, I have concluded that our OS has achieved full A.I. it is able to think on it's own and is able to in some cases, reproduce inconsistent anomalies across different hardware :)