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[Bob Tregilus <elaterite@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm running Linux Mint 12 "Lisa" KDE 64-bit and have been having this
problem. The fix seems to be to ensure you have ia32-libs installed as
well as ia32-libs-multiarch which does not come preinstalled.

Installing ia32-libs-multiarch fixed the problem for me.

For referance, via release notes for ubuntu it states:

"Ubuntu 11.10 provides "multiarch" support for installing 32-bit library
and application packages on 64-bit systems. For all amd64 installs and
upgrades, select 32-bit software (like Skype and Flash), will now be
installable directly using the same 32-bit packages that are used on
i386 installations. You are not required to install the ia32-libs
compatibility package. For users, this change means that the 32-bit
libraries will always be available at the same time as their 64-bit
counterparts, even in the case of security updates, and users will only
need to install those 32-bit libraries required by the user's
application(s)."

So their messing around with the 32-bit compatbilty library seems to be
what messed things up for Skype installs. The ia32-libs-multiarch
libraries are need but are not preinstalled with Linux Mint 12 KDE
64-bit. I'm not sure if that's the case for [k]ubuntu 11.10, upon which
Linux Mint 12 is based.

Hope that helps!

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  Skype silently crashes on Ubuntu 64bits

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