missing libphonon.so.4 in /usr/lib32

[Jérôme]

In order to install the latest Skype version with the 32 bits dynamic binaries archive, I'm just missing libphonon (Qt 4).

Below is the workaround I found :
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j@dt:~$ /usr/local/skype-4.1.0.20/skype
/usr/local/skype-4.1.0.20/skype: error while loading shared libraries: libphonon.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
j@dt:~$ sudo mkdir /usr/local/skype-4.1.0.20/deb-tree
j@dt:~$ sudo dpkg --extract libphonon4_4.6.0really4.4.2-1_i386.deb /usr/local/skype-4.1.0.20/deb-tree
j@dt:~$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/skype-4.1.0.20/deb-tree/usr/lib
j@dt:~$ /usr/local/skype-4.1.0.20/skype
j@dt:~$
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: ia32-libs 2.7ubuntu26.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-45.102-generic 2.6.32.60+drm33.26
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-45-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jan 22 12:39:26 2013
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=fr_FR.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ia32-libs

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

ia32-libs is deprecated, and no further libraries will be added to it. There is a perfectly serviceable i386 skype package available from either the Canonical partner archive or from http://beta.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-linux/downloading/?type=ubuntu64 which installs and works correctly on amd64, resolving its library dependencies via multiarch.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Sorry, just noticed that you reported this bug against 10.04 LTS. multiarch is not available in 10.04, so indeed this is a problem when trying to run newer skype builds on 10.04. We have no plans to fix this in ia32-libs in 10.04 however, and recommend that you upgrade to 12.04 LTS instead for full multiarch support.

[Mike Richman (mike-d-richman)]

For anyone stuck with 10.04 LTS: I can confirm that the above workaround works for the latest skype, currently 4.3.0.37, taken from the "dynamic" build.