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Re: What is the matter with the "http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/"?



Michael Neuffer <neuffer@neuffer.info> writes:

> 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

No, you need to call
  ia32-dpkg -i pkg.version_i386.deb

That's what ia32-apt-get adds.

MfG
        Goswin


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