Re: how to install skype on debian sid amd64?
On Thursday 18 December 2008 22:15:40 Star Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
>
> <bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> > On Thursday 2008 December 18 20:15:00 Star Liu wrote:
> >> I found that there is no official debian package for skype, and the
> >> deb package from skype official website is from etch(maybe also i386),
> >> so how to install skype on sid amd64? thanks
> >
> > http://debian-multimedia.org/ has skype packages for sid, IIRC.
>
> thanks, i added the source deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid
> main, and updated it, then searched for skype, nothing added, i guess
> maybe it's because they do not provide the amd64 version.
>
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Ahhh, no amd64 version. There is a work around and it is ugly and it does
work here, last I tried it.
Download the i386 file.
dpkg -i --architecture i386.package.name.deb
it will complain of missing dependencies. apt-cache search, or use synaptic
and find those packages: go to debian.org and download those packages in
i386 packages. Install one at a time using --architecture for dpkg and retry
skype. When the magic total is correct, skype will install.
Please read dpkg --force-help
dpkg --force-anything can bork your box. This did work on my box, it might
not work on yours.
HTH
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