'ia32-libs is not installed' while installing Skype on Ubuntu

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Published on 2012-10-27T20:29:09Z Indexed on 2012/10/28 17:17 UTC
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I downloaded skype from official site, but when installing I get this type of error

(Reading database ... 100%
(Reading database ... 150271 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking skype (from .../skype-ubuntu_4.0.0.8-1_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of skype:
 skype depends on ia32-libs; however:
  Package ia32-libs is not installed.

dpkg: error processing skype (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...

Read about that I need to install ia32-libs. Tried to install them like this

sudo apt-get install package-name:i386

But it doesn't find it. Any hint? Thx.

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