Re: Skype after ia32-libs update?
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 04:03:59PM +0100 David said:
> Hello,
>
> I have skype installed from
>
> deb http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64 ./
>
> but after ia32-libs upgrade, skype does not work any more:
>
> $ skype
> skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory
>
> I think this is because /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libXv.so.1 does not exist
> in the new version of ia32-libs (that is a dummy package, by the way). My
> first try was to write to skype amd64's maintainer, but as displayed at the
> bottom of http://people.debian.org/~rafael, he left Debian.
>
> So I would like to ask whether some of you got skype working, and how. Also,
> if there is any IT-knowledgable here, would anyone fancy maintaining skype
> in amd64 from now on? :-)
I installed it some months ago using this guide:
http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mennucc1/skype.html
I run the testing stream and Skype works fine for me.
Sam
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