Install Your Own Scripts

As I understand skype, it is a 3rd-party effort to make it work. Skype is not supported in Linux nor in Ubuntu. You may need to re-install the Linux partition and install skype into the new Linux. If you decide to reformat partition / reinstall, download the full installation LiveCD of the version of Linux you want to install.

If I were you. I would go onto ubuntuforums.org and search for tzdata, post your question. The tz sounds like one of the “zipped” packages is incomplete (or corrupt). If so, others would be frantically trying to fix their upgrade process also. The real answers are on the ubuntu forums.

I, for one, wait to make sure my important software is runnable in any ubuntu upgrade and use the full install on top of a new hard drive partition.

I often like to state in sources that I’ve made my first 20,000 mistakes in Linux and I’m well on my way to my second 20,000. I’m using Debian, and Gentoo (right this instant) so that error is VERY familiar to me. It’s annoying but actually solvable.

If skype edited tzdata or you edited tzdata for skype then that could be the problem. But don’t mess with skype yet. Open a terminal window and type: “sudo apt-get -f install tzdata”. That may solve it but it is very likely to exit with that annoying error status 1. Reboot, and here I have a problem in not using Ubuntu: you want to be in rescue mode where you type in the same command at the prompt. Then reboot again and the updates should be doable. If installing skype meant you messed with tzdata (the time zone data) then it may not work, but it may still work, in which case don’t even worry about it.

So try the command in a terminal, and if it doesn’t work, reboot and try single user or rescue mode at the grub prompt. There is actually a trick to getting into it if your grub menu doesn’t offer it, but I would talk to a Linux guru in your area rather than asking someone on line. Look up Linux User Groups and see if there is one in your area.