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  1. Bug #1263128
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 1263128

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Michael Nelson (michael.nelson) wrote : Re: [Bug 1263128] Re: Skype is hidden under "technical items" in USC when installed from deb downloaded from skype

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:28 PM, John Pugh <email address hidden> wrote:
> >From #3 above, issue #2 is not present in 13.04 and is present in
> 13.10+. This would lead one to believe the problem is either in the SCA
> or in the software-center client (in one of the USC components).

Hi John. Yes, the issue that once it is installed it only appears in
the technical items must be something that USC can fix. I'll ask
Rodney if he can take a look. All I see is that it should appear as it
has a desktop file:

michael-X201EP# ~/tmp/skype
$ dpkg --contents skype-ubuntu-precise_4.2.0.13-1_i386.deb | grep desktop
-rw-r--r-- root/root 249 2013-12-18 19:52
./usr/share/applications/skype.desktop

> Issue #1 on the other hand is likely due to the multiarch packaging issue
> mentioned below in paragraph #3.

Yes, this is unrelated to USC, as you say. On an amd64 system, there
is no 'skype' package installed after installing the downloaded deb,
only 'skype:i386', so the partner version is still ready to be
installed (http://paste.ubuntu.com/6908092/).