Skype is not installable on trusty amd64

[Daniel Holbach]

lisa@aspire-v3:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
lisa@aspire-v3:~$ LC_ALL=C sudo apt install 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 : Depends: skype-bin
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
lisa@aspire-v3:~$ LC_ALL=C sudo apt install skype skype-bin
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: 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.
lisa@aspire-v3:~$ dpkg -l | grep -v ^ii
Gewünscht=Unbekannt/Installieren/R=Entfernen/P=Vollständig Löschen/Halten
| Status=Nicht/Installiert/Config/U=Entpackt/halb konFiguriert/
         Halb installiert/Trigger erWartet/Trigger anhängig
|/ Fehler?=(kein)/R=Neuinstallation notwendig (Status, Fehler: GROSS=schlecht)
||/ Name Version Architektur Beschreibung
+++-=====================================================-===================================================-============-===============================================================================
lisa@aspire-v3:~$

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[nothing (fear-nothing)]

Also experiencing this issue. If I attempt to install the package using the .deb file, I get an error saying that the package "libqtwebkit4:i386" could not be installed. Attempting to install it gives errors showing that other things cannot be installed, with errors matching the following confirmed bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/1424263

Tried following advice in the following threads with no success:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/504689/cant-install-skype-4-3-on-ubuntu-14-04-64-bit
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2229249
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=947124
http://askubuntu.com/questions/222090/cannot-install-skype-due-to-dependency-errors-dpkg-doesnt-install-dependencies
http://askubuntu.com/questions/223237/unable-to-correct-problems-you-have-held-broken-packages

[nothing (fear-nothing)]

Also worthwhile noting, this is from a completely fresh install this morning; all packages fully up to date.

[Alessandro B. (gigoachef)]

I am also in this situation. With exactly the same set of error messages listed in the bug description.

[Alessandro B. (gigoachef)]

As above, advice from

http://askubuntu.com/questions/450101/cant-install-skype-in-14-04-64-bit and

http://askubuntu.com/questions/215298/unable-to-install-skype-on-64bit-ubuntu

was not useful.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Alberto? Why did you change the bug summary? It now has less information than it did before. Please don't do this.

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

@ Daniel Holbach

The appropriate place to put that information is in the tag list, which allows to search bugs affecting a particular release or CPU architecture. Putting that in the title is redundant.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

I disagree. It's very important to be able to see this in a longer list of bugs and to see this at a glance when looking at the bug, or in a mail subject.

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

@ Daniel Holbach

If the title said "Trusty" and you experienced the bug in Xenial, you would equally need to read the report. So those extra words ease nothing.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

If the package is uninstallable in two series of Ubuntu, the root issue could be totally different. What's your point?

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

@ Daniel Holbach

That only add when needed.

Anyway, it is a minor detail 🐞

[Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini)]

Skype is installable in a fresh LXC trusty amd64 container.

[Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini)]

And it's also installable on a livecd.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

It looks like the issue stems from what's described in https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2016-January/016122.html

apt gets really unhappy if you try to replace libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-vivid with libgl1-mesa-glx.