Comment 35 for bug 830440

I just upgraded yesterday from natty to oneiric and skype still is a problem for me:

1.) using natty partner repo

sudo apt-get install skype:i386
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:i386 : Depends: libqtgui4:i386 (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

sudo apt-get install libqtgui4:i386
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:
 libqtgui4:i386 : Depends: libxrender1:i386 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

sudo apt-get install libxrender1:i386
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:
 gnome-icon-theme : Depends: libgtk-3-bin but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: librsvg2-common but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: humanity-icon-theme but it is not going to be installed or
                             gnome-icon-theme-full but it is not going to be installed
 gnupg-agent : Depends: pinentry-gtk2 but it is not going to be installed or
                        pinentry-curses but it is not going to be installed or
                        pinentry
 libcairo2 : Depends: libxrender1 but it is not going to be installed
 libgtk-3-0 : Depends: libxcursor1 (> 1.1.2) but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.99.3) but it is not going to be installed
              Recommends: libgtk-3-bin but it is not going to be installed
 libgtk2.0-0 : Depends: libxcursor1 (> 1.1.2) but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.99.3) but it is not going to be installed
               Depends: libxrender1 but it is not going to be installed
               Recommends: libgtk2.0-bin
 libpango1.0-0 : Depends: libxft2 (> 2.1.1) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: libxrender1 but it is not going to be installed
 libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 : Depends: libxrender1 but it is not going to be installed
 x11-utils : Depends: libxft2 (> 2.1.1) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libxrender1 but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

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2. using the skype binary provided from skype

sudo dpkg -i skype-ubuntu_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 235387 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace skype 2.2.0.35-1 (using skype-ubuntu_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement skype ...
Setting up skype (2.2.0.35-1) ...

 skype
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libQtGui.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

sudo apt-get install libqtgui4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libqtgui4 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

sudo apt-get install libqtgui4:i386
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:
 libqtgui4:i386 : Depends: libxrender1:i386 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.