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Skype 4 installation on Ubuntu 12.04

Yesterday I tried to install Skype, but I have already installed one from Software Center (Skype 2.0) and installation of DEB file faild due to:


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Unpacking skype (from .../skype-ubuntu_4.0.0.7-1_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /home/kris/Downloads/skype-ubuntu_4.0.0.7-1_amd64.deb (--install):
 trying to overwrite '/etc/dbus-1/system.d/skype.conf', which is also in package skype-bin:i386 2.2.0.35-0precise3
dpkg-deb (subprocess): data: internal gzip write error: Broken pipe
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess  returned error exit status 2
dpkg-deb (subprocess): failed in write on buffer copy for failed to write to pipe in copy: Broken pipe
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /home/kris/Downloads/skype-ubuntu_4.0.0.7-1_amd64.deb
After some googling I found solution (simply unistalling skype is not enough):

$ sudo apt-get --purge remove skype
$ sudo apt-get --purge remove skype-bin
$ sudo apt-get autoremove
After that installation worked and I can use new Skype :)

Hope this will help if you will have the same issue.

Credits: http://community.skype.com/t5/Linux/Skype-won-t-upgrade-to-4-on-Ubuntu-12-04/m-p/795468

Comments

  1. for me, it was enough to remove package skype-bin:i386 like this:

    sudo apt-get purge skype-bin:i386

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