For some weird reason my skype doesn’t open normally within Ubuntu 16.04 since it miss a required library, throwing on my face the error below:
$ skype
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
For a final solution, do:
Edit the file /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i386-linux-gnu.conf, as root:
$ sudo gedit /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i386-linux-gnu.conf
Add the following line to this file, save and close it:
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa/
Then, to finish it, update your systems libraries, as root:
$ sudo ldconfig
And that’s it, your skype should open without hassle now.
References
[1] – http://askubuntu.com/questions/555902/problems-after-installing-skype-4-3