I truly hope that people don't get angry at my post, nevertheless this is very likely to happen. I know that I am experiencing problems because of doing a couple of rather stupid things:
-I installed gnome3...
Yes, I know that many of you hate it. I did it because always that I debianize a PC I aim for a netinstall with default install settings and with default desktop environment: I like to personally verify that the basics provided by Debian developers in the last stable release offer a very good general solution that even the most inexperienced of the newcomers can successfully implement.
-I installed libc6...
This was clearly dumb, I know it is never advisable to mess up with libraries that are not part of the stable release. I did it because I need the last version of NEURON (the modelling platform http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/) working in my computer, I am a PhD student, it's my job, to have this software in my PC is just necessary. NEURON requires libc6 to be installed. This is the only extra library I installed, I didn't go through the full upgrade to unstable sid.
As far as I can remember I didn't make any other "weird" move.
Another essential tool in my amd64 PC is skype, I need skype video-conferencing because of an international collaboration with another lab. Well, I cannot set it to work and I would greatly appreciate to have your help. I googled about it, I went to DebianWiki, I read posts reporting similar problems and I tried the suggested solutions (at least 3 different strategies)... nothing. I am starting to think that there is an unresolvable incompatibility between Debian7_amd64+libc6 and skype.
I tried installing the latest skype multiarch package as suggested in DebianWiki (https://wiki.debian.org/skype)...
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dpkg --add-architecture i386
dpkg -i /home/MyName/Downloads/skype-debian_4.3.0.37-1_i386.deb
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Selecting previously unselected package skype.
(Reading database ... 158465 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking skype (from .../skype-debian_4.3.0.37-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of skype:
skype depends on libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~).
skype depends on libc6 (>= 2.7).
skype depends on libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1).
skype depends on libqt4-dbus (>= 4:4.5.3).
skype depends on libqt4-network (>= 4:4.8.0).
skype depends on libqt4-xml (>= 4:4.5.3).
skype depends on libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1).
skype depends on libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.8.0).
skype depends on libqtwebkit4 (>= 2.1.0~2011week13).
skype depends on libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1).
skype depends on libx11-6.
skype depends on libxext6.
skype depends on libxss1.
skype depends on libxv1.
skype depends on libssl1.0.0.
skype depends on libpulse0.
skype depends on libasound2-plugins.
dpkg: error processing skype (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
skype
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Failed to launch 'Skype'
Failed to execute child process "skype"
(Only default repos were used... not unstable, not non-free)
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apt-get update
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release.gpg
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main Sources
Hit http://ftp.ch.debian.org wheezy Release.gpg
Get:1 http://ftp.ch.debian.org wheezy-updates Release.gpg [836 B]
Hit http://ftp.ch.debian.org wheezy Release
Get:2 http://ftp.ch.debian.org wheezy-updates Release [124 kB]
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ftp.ch.debian.org wheezy/main Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main Translation-en
Hit http://ftp.ch.debian.org wheezy/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.ch.debian.org wheezy/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ftp.ch.debian.org wheezy/main Translation-en
Get:3 http://ftp.ch.debian.org wheezy-updates/main Sources [14 B]
Hit http://ftp.ch.debian.org wheezy-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.ch.debian.org wheezy-updates/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.ch.debian.org wheezy-updates/main Translation-en/DiffIndex
Fetched 125 kB in 2s (53.7 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
skype:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.3.6-6~) but it is not installed
Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.7) but it is not installed
Depends: libgcc1:i386 (>= 1:4.1.1) but it is not installed
Depends: libqt4-dbus:i386 (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not installed
Depends: libqt4-network:i386 (>= 4:4.8.0) but it is not installed
Depends: libqt4-xml:i386 (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not installed
Depends: libqtcore4:i386 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1) but it is not installed
Depends: libqtgui4:i386 (>= 4:4.8.0) but it is not installed
Depends: libqtwebkit4:i386 (>= 2.1.0~2011week13) but it is not installed
Depends: libstdc++6:i386 (>= 4.2.1) but it is not installed
Depends: libx11-6:i386 but it is not installed
Depends: libxext6:i386 but it is not installed
Depends: libxss1:i386 but it is not installed
Depends: libxv1:i386 but it is not installed
Depends: libssl1.0.0:i386 but it is not installed
Depends: libpulse0:i386 but it is not installed
Depends: libasound2-plugins:i386 but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
skype:i386
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 44.3 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Before giving up, I decided to try with an older skype version, according to DebianWiki this is supposed to be the way to go when running on Debian 6 squeeze.
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apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk
dpkg -i --force-architecture skype-debian_4.0.0.7-1_i386.deb
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apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-i386
ia32-libs-gtk : Depends: ia32-libs-i386
Depends: ia32-libs-gtk-i386
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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dpkg -i --force-architecture /home/ulisses/Downloads/skype-debian_4.0.0.7-1_i386.deb
Selecting previously unselected package skype.
(Reading database ... 158466 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking skype (from .../skype-debian_4.0.0.7-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of skype:
skype depends on libasound2 (>> 1.0.18).
skype depends on libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~).
skype depends on libc6 (>= 2.7).
skype depends on libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1).
skype depends on libqt4-dbus (>= 4:4.5.3).
skype depends on libqt4-network (>= 4:4.5.3).
skype depends on libqt4-xml (>= 4:4.5.3).
skype depends on libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.6.1).
skype depends on libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.6.1).
skype depends on libstdc++6 (>= 4.4.0).
skype depends on libx11-6.
skype depends on libxext6.
skype depends on libxss1.
skype depends on libxv1.
dpkg: error processing skype (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
skype
Thanks a lot for reading and posting in this forum.