On Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail using Nvidia proprietary graphics drivers, Skype crashes.
After you have installed Skype (see this tutorial for Ubuntu 13.04 / 12.10 / 12.04), follow these steps exactly.
This is what you have to do to get rid of the segfault / errors on Ubuntu 13.04 with Nvidia.
Rename the skype exacutable file from “skype” to “skype-bin“:
$ sudo mv /usr/bin/skype /usr/bin/skype-bin
Create the /usr/bin/skype file and paste the following lines:
#!/bin/sh
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1
exec /usr/bin/skype-bin
Set 0755 permissions on /usr/bin/skype:
$ sudo chmod 0755 /usr/bin/skype
i dont understand..how am i supposed to open /usr/bin/skype if i renamed it to skype-bin? also i couldnt open skype-bin with gedit…it always crashes
@heaver in the post above the sentence “Open the /usr/bin/skype with sudo and paste the following lines:” actually means, create /usr/bin/skype as a new text file, open it with an editor and paste the follwing text into the editor and then save the new file. this can be done by typing
sudo gedit /usr/bin/skype
i would also like to point out that the above worked for me with the small change that the line “exec skype-bin” in the shell script had to be replaced by “exec /usr/bin/skype-bin”.
thanks for the tutorial.
Good Job, it work!
Thanks from Italy 🙂