Re: What is the matter with the "http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/"?
Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> Michael Neuffer wrote:
>> Wolodja Wentland wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:53 +0400, James Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>> Do you know will anybody intend to maintain the skype packages for Debian?
>>>>
>>> I am not aware of any DD maintaining skype packages, but Skype used to have a
>>> debian repository at:
>>>
>>> deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free
>>>
>>> which might serve your needs.
>>>
>> But not for amd64
>>
>> Cheers
>> Mike
>>
>>
> I have installed the 32 bit version of Skype on a pure 64 bit install of
> Debian (lenny when it was testing) and it worked fine. Don't ask me how
> it worked, but it did. I found the idea on the old Linux forum at Skype
> as someone else had done it before and posted their results. There were
> a few amd64 bit users on that forum who installed 32 bit Skype and it
> worked for all of us, at least all of us who posted back to the forum on
> the subject after trying it.
>
> IIRC all I did was download the .deb for Debian from Skype and run dpkg
> -i pkg.version.deb and it worked.
The minimum you need to do in that case is to force the architecture and
then install all missing 32bit libraries.
Cheers
Mike
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