I have tried all the posted suggestions on google, I believe and still get an unmet dependency and failure to install. The dependency seems to be 'libqtwebkit4:i386'. Anyone have a solution. 
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These are a list of commands run in the following order, all failing to improve or solve:
steven@stevenK14:~$ sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgradesudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
wget -O skype-install.deb http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-deb
sudo dpkg -i skype-install.deb
sudo apt-get install libqtwebkit4:i386
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo dpkg -i skype-install.deb
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
wget -O skype-install.deb http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-deb
sudo dpkg -i skype-install.deb
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ trusty partner' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/canonical_partner.list"
sudo apt-get install skype
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge xorg-edgers -
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
skype-bin:i386 : Depends: libqtwebkit4:i386 (>= 2.2~2011week36) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgl1-mesa-glx:i386
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
steven@stevenK14:~$Comment
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I tried again just now. Qapt appears to install, but does not open using krunner or the konsole. Gdebi won't install due to missing dependencies. I even tried Muon without success. I am trying to install in Kubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bit. I also tried using a konsole with sudo apt-get install skype, but no joy.
Originally posted by TeunisComment
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Are you using Muon Package Manager? (Not Muon Discover, but Muon Package Manager.)
If so, maybe try again, maybe with this:
Clean things up:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
then
sudo apt-get update
then
sudo apt-get -f install
Then open Muon Package Manager, and type
skype
and right-click on it to Install it.
That's all I do in 14.04 to get Skype 4.3.0.37. In fact, no command line at all, just Muon PM. I only recommended those three commands to you to try to clean things up first.An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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If using Muon Discover, open it, type Muon Package Manager, and click to Install it.An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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Dear Qmike, I have done that process a dozen times and I believe a dozen other recommendations by other gurus. There are lots of users with the selfsame problem, so I don't believe it is unique to my hardware. My version is Kubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bit; is that the same distribution you are having success? Strangely enough when I had Kubuntu 14.04, not the LTS version, Skype worked fine.
I suppose I can live without Skype, but it is light-years better when talking to my grandchildren. My system is fast enough so there is no lag in lip movements, and sound quality is so much better than the phone, it would be nice. And seeing my beautiful grandchildren with their faces life-size is a real treat over the miniature size in my iPhone 6. I can't believe I can complain about that. When I was young, they didn't even have TV that wasn't just a bunch of static and snow. I never could have dreamed that you could be anywhere and talk to anyone like we do today. But I have to tell you, once you have seen my grandchildren lifesize, miniaturized just doesn't cut it
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Because I hate to get advice from a friend and not take the advice given, I am going to try installing once more, but I don't have to copy and past or even carefully read the instructions, I have done it so many times. Thanks for trying; I will give you a report---and apology if it works this time
Shab
Originally posted by Qqmike View PostComment
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steven@stevenK14:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
[sudo] password for steven:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of skype:
skype depends on libqtwebkit4 (>= 2.2~2011week36); however:
Package libqtwebkit4:i386 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing package skype (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
skype
steven@stevenK14:~$
Originally posted by Qqmike View PostComment
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Yes, exactly. My Skype works perfectly--both video-audio and chats (where you type to each other in real time). I use it all the time, around the world. I've used Skype on Kubuntu back to Kubuntu 8.04 (or maybe before that, I can't recall). I didn't do anything special to make it go ... ?My version is Kubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bit; is that the same distribution you are having success?An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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We cross-posted
I have both libqtwebkit4:i386 and libqtwebkit4 installed. I opened Muon Package Manager, typed into the window this: libqtwebkit4, and I see that and libqtwebkit4:i386 installed. Could you use Muon Package Manager and simply install libqtwebkit4:i386?libqtwebkit4:i386 is not installedAn intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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When you open Muon Package Manager, type skype in the window, you see that your Skype is not installed, right?An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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I remember trying that before. I just typed in the Muon Package Manager search and when finished typing, the page was empty. I don't know how it is possible, but apparently in cannot be found in my Muon Package Manager. I checked my entry, letter by letter, it was entered correctly.
Center monitor ?? Shab ??
Originally posted by Qqmike View PostComment
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What about this:
libqtwebkit4
When you type it in the Muon Package Manager window, does it show up?
And, type
skype
in that window (in Muon Package Manager).
It does show up, right?
About your blank page when you type libqtwebkit4:i386 ... the blank page suggests (to me) that the package libqtwebkit4:i386 isn't even offered to you! It is offered to me, though, on the same K14.04 64-bit OS. I am assuming that YOUR Muon Package Manager is working correctly (mine seems to be working correctly here). Of course, the guys reading this will tell you that you should use the command line (Konsole) for this work: sudo apt-get install; but you seem to have tried that.An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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And in Muon, all your (available and offered) software sources are checked?
I think Partner Archive.An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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Sources .... so I open Muon Package Manager, click the tab at the top that says Settings, give my password, then:
Under the tab Kubuntu software: Everything is checked except Source Code.
and
Click the Other Software tab and I see checked these:
Canonical Partners (and the Source Code)
Independent (and the Source Code)
(and then I have a ppa by Rod Smith for his program(s) -- but this is not relevant here to us)An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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