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I tried to install skype following many of the commands shown in the sloution page of askubuntu for "how to install skype". But finally the output is coming: E: Package 'skype:i386' has no installation candidate. Please help ASAP.

Shibu
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I assume you are installing from a ppa or external source that still has the 32bit package. That will probably not log in anyway because it is not supported anymore. Please provide some information:

apt-cache policy skype*

besides that you can download the 64bit deb package directly from skype.com and use dpkg from a terminal to install it.

sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/skypeforlinux-64.deb
ukos
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Option 1:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ $(lsb_release -sc) partner"
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install skype

Option 2:

  • Download Skype. For Ubuntu you should download .deb.
  • Open it with GDebi package installer.
  • Install the package.

This should solve your problem.

Tshilidzi Mudau
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Aravind
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