Re: Questions about multi-arch and 3rd party packages in Wheezy

[Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org>]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 07:14:15AM CET, Johan Grönqvist <johan.gronqvist@gmail.com> said:
> 2013-02-04 01:10, Marc Shapiro skrev:
> >Unfortunately, dpkg does not automatically
> >handle dependancies, like agt-get and aptitude do, so I get a list of
> >dependencies, all i386 libraries. Is there any way to install such a
> >package and get the dependant libraries installed other than manually
> >installing each one?
> 
> The information about skype on the debian wiki seems to indicate that
> "apt-get -f install" is the solution. It worked for me for skype.
> 
> 
> From <https://wiki.debian.org/skype>:
> -------------------------------------
> 
> First, you will have to enable Multi-Arch:
> 
> # dpkg --add-architecture i386
> # apt-get update
> 
> Then, download the i386 package as above and install:
> 
> # wget -O skype-install.deb http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-deb
> # dpkg -i skype-install.deb
> 
> If you then proceed with
> 
> # apt-get -f install
> 
> quite a few i386 packages will be installed.

I'd rather use gdebi for installing skype thus

gdebi skype-install.deb will install skype and the libraries it depends on.