I'm complete new to Ubuntu so please pardon my ignorance.

Every time I install something I get the same error at the end. for example...

sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get autoremove 

Fetched 386 kB in 0s (545 kB/s)       

dpkg: error processing lib32asound2 (--configure):

 package lib32asound2 is not ready for configuration

 cannot configure (current status `half-installed')

Errors were encountered while processing:

 lib32asound2

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I have tried to remove and reinstall this package:

sudo apt-get install lib32asound2 

but with no joy same issue.

How can I resolve?

P.S. I'm running 64bit Ubuntu 12.10 beta 2. Error came after trying to install Skype which failed.

Many thanks