skype crashes in ubuntu 12.04
This helped me:
sudo apt-get install libasound2-plugins:i386
From here: Skype 4.2 extremely unstable / unusable on Debian sid
I had the same problem, this is what I did to overcome it:
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Remove previous installations of skype:
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge skype -
Do an overall update:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -
Download the latest version of skype
Start Skype and it should work fine