Re: how to install skype on debian sid amd64?
On Thursday 18 December 2008 22:24:40 Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> 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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> >
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> > I'm a web developer using
> > debian+mono(C#)+postgresql+xhtml+javascript+xsl+xml+css
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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
Correction: dpkg -i --force-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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