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**NoWorries** · Oct 05, 2011, 03:47 AM

Re: Any Solution to this Problem + Do I change from 64B to 32B?

Originally posted by Teunis

The first tree commands make no sense.

You need to start with:

Code:

sudo apt-get update

Then continue with:

Code:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Give it a try...

Sorry to say that I did put in the commands as you suggest. I guess in my haste I put in the wrong commands without checking. I am so used to using the up arrow in the Konsole terminal that I never have to type in the command. I will now edit the post to correct this error.

With regard to the first two commands, ie the configure followed by the fix. I put them there to show that I did not have any outstanding package problems. I do not normally add these commands, but issue them occasionally to check the status of my packages, when I have problems.

**oshunluvr** · Oct 05, 2011, 04:23 AM

Re: Any Solution to this Problem + Do I change from 64B to 32B?

I'm totally unclear as to why you think this problem has anything to do with 64 vs. 32 bit. Are you just assuming this is the cause or do you have some evidence?

BTW, Skype runs fine on my 64bit install, as does Adobe reader - although I removed the later because Okular is faster and not virus-like as most Adobe products are.

**NoWorries** · Oct 05, 2011, 05:02 AM

Re: Any Solution to this Problem + Do I change from 64B to 32B?

When I installed Skype, I got it to work with the extra packages:

Code:

sudo apt-get install libqt4-core:i386
 sudo apt-get install libqt4-gui:i386
 sudo apt-get install libdbus-1-3:i386

These commands also added other i386 packages. Now there are upgades to the some of the libqt4 packages and the system wants to remove many of my kde packages such as kdebase-bin kdebase-runtime kdelibs-bin kdm to name but a few. My understanding is that this would break my system.

When you installed Skype did you have to install extra packages for it to work?

**oshunluvr** · Oct 05, 2011, 05:12 AM

Re: Any Solution to this Problem + Do I change from 64B to 32B?

http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-ubuntu-64

I downloaded and installed the Ubuntu 64bit version.

You can run 32bit programs (most of them) by installing the 32bit libraries and running the program with linux32 or by forcing architecture to 32bit (depends on the program).

**claydoh** · Oct 05, 2011, 04:08 PM

Re: Any Solution to this Problem + Do I change from 64B to 32B?

As Ubuntu is going to be multiarch in 11.10, the problem is that there is no working 64 bit Skype in Oneiric's repos last I looked. But until then, you can install it following these instructions as well

Installing the correct skype package

As a result of this change, work has begun to deprecate the ia32-libs package, which no longer ships all the libraries that it did previously. Most 32-bit software will either be automatically transitioned to i386 packages on upgrade or will continue to work with the ia32-libs package in oneiric. However, the Skype website currently directs users to download a package for 64-bit Ubuntu 11.10 systems which is not compatible. Users are instead recommended to install the skype package via the Canonical partner archive using Software Center. Alternatively, you can manually install this i386 package from the command line by running:

$ sudo apt-get install skype:i386

Now your apt issue is something else, something you uninstalled (or was removed), or a missing package (temporarily) on the server could cause this, as well as mismatched repo information.

Also note that any package with the ":i386" tacked on at the end are 32 bit libraries, those are probably safe to have removed. But what is causing apt to want to remove most of KDE, I do not know.

**NoWorries** · Oct 05, 2011, 06:56 PM

Re: Any Solution to this Problem + Do I change from 64B to 32B?

Thanks for all the help. I have now decided to download the latest build for Kubuntu 11.10 (5 Oct 2011) and have another go at installing Oneiric. Before doing this, I first tried removing some of the i386 packages such as libqt4-sql, and I got the message that a truckload of packages would be removed. So it looks like claydoh was correct.

Originally posted by claydoh

Now your apt issue is something else, something you uninstalled (or was removed), or a missing package (temporarily) on the server could cause this, as well as mismatched repo information.

I have noticed that I am not the only one having trouble. I suspect muon does things without warning. I found ubersoft's experience had some similarities to mine, except I know what is happening with Synaptic before disaster strikes.

Originally posted by ubersoft

The update before last, for some reason my system decided it was necessary to install 80 32-bit libraries on my 64-bit system. Last update it decided those 32-bit libraries were unnecessary and removed them... and the rest of my kubuntu environment, and xwindows. So I had to spend some time putting everything back together last night.

I have now done a re-install and I am very pleased to say that everything is working as it should - I am very happy with the end result, which took me abut 11/2 hours to do and have networking with email so that my wife could work on her computer

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Regarding the installation of Skype, I have now found that I do not need to install the extra packages. I started by installing the i386 package in the repository. During this process it installed all the dependencies. I had already downloaded skype-ubuntu_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb and so I removed the repository Skype and installed the downloaded version. I was surprised that it also started to download dependencies and then stopped. Restarting the installation ofskype-ubuntu_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb then completed the process and the newer version is working. I am not sure if just installing the deb package would have given a working system. I had a similar experience when I installed google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb, ie it installed the dependencies and then stopped and had to be restarted.

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