I am using ubuntu 11.10 64bit,
skype was working however after running sudo apt-get autoremove
skype is throwing
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
How can I fix this?
Best Answer
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: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 oflibxss1
.