Re: Skype not installable on trusty

2016-01-15 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello, what I probably didn't express as clearly in my first mail as I should have: - on systems where skype is installed already apt updates/installations are now broken - this is not a skype package problem, but more of a multiarch i386/amd64 version mismatch (or something), so this mig

Re: Skype not installable on trusty

2016-01-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 05:08 -0800, Daniel Holbach wrote: >  - on systems where skype is installed already apt >    updates/installations are now broken There are claims that skype is often used for radio interviews, perhaps somebody subscribed to  https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-s

Re: Skype not installable on trusty

2016-01-15 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
On 2016-01-07 07:45, Daniel Holbach wrote: > on two trusty installations in my family skype is not installable > anymore. This blocked updates and further package installations on those > machines. Upon searching the internet for more clues I saw that others > had the problem too. > > https://bu

Re: Skype not installable on trusty

2016-01-15 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello, On 15.01.2016 08:27, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > On 2016-01-07 07:45, Daniel Holbach wrote: >> on two trusty installations in my family skype is not installable >> anymore. This blocked updates and further package installations on those >> machines. Upon searching the internet for more clue

Re: Skype not installable on trusty

2016-01-15 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
On 2016-01-15 17:27, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > On 2016-01-07 07:45, Daniel Holbach wrote: >> on two trusty installations in my family skype is not installable >> anymore. This blocked updates and further package installations on those >> machines. Upon searching the internet for more clues I saw

Re: Skype not installable on trusty

2016-01-15 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello, On 15.01.2016 08:32, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > On 2016-01-15 17:27, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: >> On 2016-01-07 07:45, Daniel Holbach wrote: >>> on two trusty installations in my family skype is not installable >>> anymore. This blocked updates and further package installations on those >>

Re: Skype not installable on trusty

2016-01-15 Thread João M . S . Silva
I'm just guessing: is it one of those cases in which you can install the missing dependencies with "sudo apt-get install -f"? João M. S. Silva On 01/15/2016 04:39 PM, Daniel Holbach wrote: Hello, On 15.01.2016 08:32, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: On 2016-01-15 17:27, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: O

Re: Skype not installable on trusty

2016-01-15 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello, On 15.01.2016 08:46, João M. S. Silva wrote: > I'm just guessing: is it one of those cases in which you can install the > missing dependencies with "sudo apt-get install -f"? Unfortunately not. Have a great day, Daniel -- Get involved with Snappy Ubuntu Core! developer.ubuntu.com/snap

Re: Skype not installable on trusty

2016-01-15 Thread Daniel Holbach
On 15.01.2016 09:26, Stephen P. Villano wrote: > > > On 01/15/2016 10:55 AM, Daniel Holbach wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On 15.01.2016 08:46, João M. S. Silva wrote: >>> I'm just guessing: is it one of those cases in which you can install the >>> missing dependencies with "sudo apt-get install -f"? >>

Re: Skype not installable on trusty

2016-01-15 Thread Ernst Sjöstrand
Is the problem caused by LTS packages, perhaps you have libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-vivid instead of libgl1-mesa-glx? Regards //Ernst 2016-01-15 18:36 GMT+01:00 Daniel Holbach : > On 15.01.2016 09:26, Stephen P. Villano wrote: >> >> >> On 01/15/2016 10:55 AM, Daniel Holbach wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> On 1

Re: parsing upstream version and revision from Ubuntu package Version strings

2016-01-15 Thread Stephen Quintero
Hi Martin, Thank you for this clarification. The situation appears complicated because Ubuntu receives a package which may or may not include a Debian revision. Regardless, if Ubuntu modifies the source, it appends ubuntu* (no hyphen). This is what I did not discover through searching and is th