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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
Lucio
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Matei Alexandru
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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

If that's successful, I suggest that you check out this answer to get a persistent solution.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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This solution worked for me on Ubuntu 16.04

sudo ln -st /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu mesa/libGL.so.1

Make sure you have libgl1-mesa-glx installed.

David Foerster
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Med Rhamnia
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For Ubuntu like systems, I confirm that the solution of Gunnar Hjalmarsson works:

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

(tested un xUbuntu 16.04) However, it doesn't work for debian.

The solutions for debian are listed here, and the solution for the libGl error is to run

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mesa-diverted/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/

Then everything works perfectly ! (tested on debian unstable with the debian binary from the official website on november 2016)

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If others like me ends up here trying to solve this problem, the solution could be to reinstall bumblebee with the following:

sudo apt-get install bumblebee-nvidia --reinstall
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