To solve this problem you need to install and load a 32-bit library (since Skype is compiled for such architectures) before launching Skype.
In addition to this, I'll show how to solve this problem also if you want to install a skype wrapper, in the case Skype is not always visible on the system tray.
These are the commands to type in a Terminal
- add the skype-wrapper repository (optional): sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:skype-wrapper/ppa && sudo apt-get -qq update
- install skype-wrapper (optional): sudo apt-get install skype-wrapper
- sudo apt-add-repository ppa:libv4l/stable
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get upgrade
- sudo apt-get install libv4l-0:i386
#!/bin/bash
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype
ATTENTION: put skype-wrapper instead of just skype in the line above if you chose the option of installing the wrapper!
In you want Skype to automatically load at startup, on the Menu find "Startup Applications", remove other Skype launchers if available, and press the "Add" button. Give the name and comment you like, and in the "Command" field put the absolute path of the file created above, for example "/home/me/skype.sh".
The End.
Perfect .. Thanks for the post.
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