Skype deb i386 fails to install on Oneiric 64bit

This of course is not a "wrong architecture" on a system that has i386 enabled as a foreign architecture; and the install button really ought to work, as until skype makes it into the oneiric partner archive, this is the main means by which users will install skype on oneiric. We really want software center to support installing i386 .debs on amd64 for oneiric.

On my 64bit system the installation of "skype:i386" pulled in the correct dependencies, but until I manually added "libpulse0:i386" to my system, it was not recognizing/using PulseAudio. Perhaps it should be included as dependency when installing on a 64bit system.

This appears to be fixed in the latest updates - aptdaemon or apt-xapian or something rather than software-center, I think, but fixed all the same. Closing.

hmm, no, got my bugs crossed here. Downloading the .deb from the skype website still has this problem; it's installing from the partner repository that now works.

I have a branch for this now, its actually missing support in python-apt. This should be fixed now with: lp:~mvo/python-apt/debfile-multiarch

The new python-apt in precise fixes the issue, I tested it with the latest 32bit skype and it did a correct dependency resolution in ht multiarch scenario.

This bug was fixed in the package python-apt - 0.8.3ubuntu1

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python-apt (0.8.3ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * merged from debian/sid

python-apt (0.8.3) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Alexey Feldgendler ]
  * handle architecture-specific conflicts correctly (LP: #829138)

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * lp:~mvo/python-apt/debfile-multiarch:
    - add multiarch support to the debfile.py code (LP: #854839)
  * tests/test_apt_cache.py:
    - add additional check if provides test can actually be run

python-apt (0.8.2) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * merged from ubuntu:
    - use logging instead of print
    - update distro template Ubuntu.info.in
    - add xz compression support
  * po/python-apt.pot:
    - refreshed
  * po/pt_BR.po:
    - updated, thanks to Sergio Cipolla (closes: #628398)
  * po/da.po:
    - updated, thanks to Joe Dalton (closes: #631309)
  * po/sr.po:
    - updated, thanks to Nikola Nenadic (closes: #638308)
  * python/apt_pkgmodule.cc:
    - add apt_pkg.get_architectures() call
  * apt/cache.py:
    - remove "print" when creating dirs in apt.Cache(rootdir=dir),
      thanks to Martin Pitt
    - add __lt__ to apt.Package so that sort() sorts by name
      on list of package objects
  * debian/control:
    - add recommends to xz-lzma to ensure we have the unlzma command
  * apt/cache.py:
    - set Dir::bin::dpkg if a alternate rootdir is given
      (LP: #885895)
  * build fixes for the apt in experimental
  * apt/debfile.py:
    - raise error when accessing require_changes and
      missing_deps without calling check() before, thanks to
      Tshepang Lekhonkhobe (closes: #624379)
  * apt/package.py:
    - add new "suggests" property, thanks to Christop Groth
    - allow Dependency object to be iteratable, this allows to write
      code like:
      for or_dep_group in pkg.candidate.dependencies:
          for dep in or_dep_group:
              do_something()
      (thanks to Christop Groth)
  * apt/progress/base.py:
    - write exception text to stderr to avoid hidding exceptions
      like "pre-configure failed" from libapt (thanks to Jean-Baptiste
      Lallement)

  [ Tshepang Lekhonkhobe ]
  * rm usage of camelcase in cache.py doc (closes: #626617)
  * grammar fix in the cache.py doc (closes: #626610)

  [ Nikola Pavlović ]
  * fixed a typo, changed "Open Source software" to
    "free and open-source software" (LP: #500940)
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:44:30 +0100