[Bug 1372846] Re: should depend on a versioned skype-bin?

@Ben: Not related to this bug. As said above, this is not a support forum. Please seek help at e.g. . -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1372846 Title: should

[Bug 1372846] Re: should depend on a versioned skype-bin?

This seems to be affecting me. I run 16.04. and wanted to install skype but The following packages have unmet dependencies: skype : Depends: skype-bin E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. I then tried to install skype-bin: The following packages have unmet

[Bug 1372846] Re: should depend on a versioned skype-bin?

** Tags added: packaging ** Tags added: trusty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1372846 Title: should depend on a versioned skype-bin? To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1372846] Re: should depend on a versioned skype-bin?

~$ sudo apt-get install skype skype-bin [sudo] password for c: Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait Construction de l'arbre des dépendances Lecture des informations d'état... Fait skype est déjà la plus récente version disponible. Certains paquets ne peuvent être installés. Ceci peut

[Bug 1372846] Re: should depend on a versioned skype-bin?

@camara: This is not a support forum, but maybe you need to activate Canonical Partner: https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/addremove-sources.html #canonical-partner -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1372846] Re: should depend on a versioned skype-bin?

Any chance that someone can give this bug report some attention? It messes it up for people. http://askubuntu.com/questions/557463 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1372846 Title:

[Bug 1372846] Re: should depend on a versioned skype-bin?

Is this the reason Skype installation fails on my machine? Tue Sep 30 11:41:59 $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description:Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Release:14.04 Codename: trusty Tue Sep 30 11:37:00 $ sudo apt-get install skype Reading package

[Bug 1372846] Re: should depend on a versioned skype-bin?

Maybe. What does this result in: dpkg-query -W skype skype-bin And what happens if you do: sudo apt-get install skype skype-bin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1372846 Title:

[Bug 1372846] Re: should depend on a versioned skype-bin?

Suppose it should be: Depends: skype-bin (= ${binary:Version}) I'd like to emphasize the importance of this bug. I have seen several users at Ask Ubuntu who claimed to have installed latest version, but 4.2 was still loaded. I thought they were just confused, but now we have a theory of what