Re: cannot install skype on unstable
Andreas Juch <debian-user@juch.cc> writes:
> Am Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:27:25 +1000
> schrieb Jonathan Wheelhouse <jonathan.wheelhouse@gmail.com>:
>
>> Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > On Mon,22.Jun.09, 15:12:18, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote:
>> >> Hi
>> >>
>> >> I used to have skype installed but I think a recent dist-upgrade
>> >> got rid of it (now my wife _really_ wants it back).
>> >>
>> >> /etc/apt/sources.list has
>> >> deb http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64 ./
>> >>
>> >> # aptitude install skype
>> >>
>> >> produces
>> >>
>> >> The following packages are BROKEN:
>> >> libc6-i386
>> >> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>> >> ia32-libs{a} ia32-libs-gtk{a} lib32asound2{a} lib32gcc1{a}
>> >> lib32ncurses5{a} lib32stdc++6{a} lib32z1{a} skype 0 packages
>> >> upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need
>> >> to get 55.8MB of archives. After unpacking 123MB will be used. The
>> >> following packages have unmet dependencies: libc6-i386: Breaks:
>> >> ia32-libs (<= 2.7) but 2.7 is to be installed. Breaks:
>> >> ia32-libs-gtk (<= 2.7) but 2.7 is to be installed. Breaks:
>> >> lib32asound2 (<= 1.0.20-2) but 1.0.20-2 is to be installed.
>> >> Breaks: lib32ncurses5 (<= 5.7+20090523-1) but 5.7+20090523-1 is to
>> >> be installed. Breaks: lib32z1 (<= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13) but
>> >> 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 is to be installed.
>> > ^^^^^^
>> > Because it wants to install those libs libc6-i386 will be broken.
>>
>> Sorry for the delay in responding (a sick child but better now).
>>
>> OK, but libc6-i386 is not installed. And I (or rather my wife) needs
>> skype installed. I'm not sure what to do now.
>
> You could try to unpack the statically linked i386 version of skype in
> you home directory and start it out of a shell. This could be a
> workaround until you can install the package but I really don't know if
> libc6-i386 is needed for the statically linked version too.
>
> http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-static
Yes, I tried that but no go. Error message is a rather cryptic
jonathan@lappy:~/dwhelper/skype_static-2.0.0.72$ ./skype
bash: ./skype: No such file or directory
but that file, skype itself, does exist:
jonathan@lappy:~/dwhelper/skype_static-2.0.0.72$ ll skype
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jonathan jonathan 20356964 2008-05-28 20:21 skype
Anyhow, hopefully the maintainers will make the ia32-libs etc
installable with libc6-i386 so I can get skype working.
Thanks
--
Jonathan
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