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Why can't I find or run my installed skype program?

Asked by Sherry Small

My computer went down. After it was fixed my Skype was no longer on my desktop. Therefore I went to the Ubuntu software center and uninstalled it then re-installed it. Now I can go to search file and pull up lots of files, but I can not figure out how to run it. Then a error popped up saying something about 'exacutilble .bit'

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said : 		#1

Hi ,

try this please. Open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy-paste from here to your terminal bellow command.

1) sudo apt-get purge skype*

It will ask for you password , write it carefully cuz nothing will appear (like not writing anything).

Then go to this Official skype site : http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/get-skype/on-your-computer/linux/

Download the correct architecture (32bit or 64bit)and click SAVE FILE. Then again in terminal write this

1) cd Downloads

2) sudo dpkg -i skype-ubuntu_4.0.0.8-1_i386.deb (for 32bit version)

OR

2) sudo dpkg -i skype-ubuntu_4.0.0.8-1_amd64.deb (for 64bit version) .

Let it to finish the installation and reboot your PC.

Tip: You can see your system's architecture with this command in terminal

1) lscpu | grep Arch
OR
2) uname -a

X86_64 = 64bit
i686 = 32bit

Thanks

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