Problems After Installing Skype 4.3 – Solutions

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just installed Skype 4.3 on my laptop (Dell Inspiron N5110) running Ubuntu 14.10 following all the instructions from every possible source but when I try to launch it absolutely nothing happens.

What can I do to get it working? Here's what I get:

andi@Andi:~$ skype
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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Open a terminal window and try to start Skype with this command (copy and paste):

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1 skype

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Looks like you're missing a library file. The program apt-file can be used to find which package provides a certain file. (dpkg -S does this too, but does not work for packages which are not installed)

apt-file search libXss.so yields:

ia32-libs: /usr/lib32/libXss.so
ia32-libs: /usr/lib32/libXss.so.1
ia32-libs: /usr/lib32/libXss.so.1.0.0
libxss-dev: /usr/lib/libXss.so
libxss1: /usr/lib/libXss.so.1
libxss1: /usr/lib/libXss.so.1.0.0
libxss1-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libXss.so.1.0.0

You need to install the libxss1 package for that library. If you're running the 32-bit version of Skype, ia32-libs needs to be installed instead of libxss1.

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