Can't Install Skype on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit

[Tom H]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Iwan Junaid <iwan.junaid at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Iwan Junaid <iwan.junaid at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Here is what i've done so far:
>>>
>>> - I install ubuntu using the ubuntu server. This is because my primary
>>> ATI
>>> Radeon VGA card is broken. So i can't install ubuntu using
>>> ubuntu-desktop
>>> iso, because it always use my broken VGA card to initialize the
>>> installer.
>>> - After successfully setup core packages for ubuntu server, i choose to
>>> install ubuntu-desktop and use intel-installer to use my seconday VGA
>>> card.
>>> - Then after installing more packages, i try to install skype by
>>> enabling
>>> partner repository using apt-get method:
>>>
>>> sudo apt-get install skype
>>>
>>> but i got following error:
>>>
>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>> Building dependency tree
>>> Reading state information... Done
>>> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>>> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>>> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>>> or been moved out of Incoming.
>>> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>>>
>>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>> skype : Depends: skype-bin
>>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>>>
>>> Does anybody know how to deal with this issue ?
>>
>> What's the output of:
>>
>> dpkg --print-architecture
>> and
>> dpkg --print-foreign-architectures
>
> dpkg --print-architecture shows amd64
>
> dpkg --print-foreign-architectures shows i386

Please bottom-post.

I've had that message after removing i386 so I was expecting the
second command to yield nothing...

What's the output of "apt-cache policy skype-bin"?

You might want to try "aptitude install skype" because aptitude's
resolver might suggest some choices that'll explain the problem.