Skype on Ubuntu 15.04 64 bit and AMD graphics card

This post solves particular use case with skype not working on Ubuntu 15.04 with AMD as the graphics card. I was having problem with skype not opening and I quickly figured out that there was some issue with finding shared object file.

So, first make sure you have fglrx installed. You might see errors such as below:

skype: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The fix is simple. You must be able to search for the file that's being complained about

$ find /usr/ -name "libGL.so.1"

Based on the output, just do something like below:-

$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/fglrx/libGL.so.1 skype

And, there you go. Skype launches without complaining anything. If you receive complains about similar shared object files, make sure to install appropriate packages and then specify via LD_PRELOAD. To make permanent and be able to open via just click on Skype icon, you can create a symbolic link:

ln -sf /usr/lib32/fglrx/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1

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