Re: Faking it with skype

[Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com>]

 Hi.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 03:05:05PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> However, ...
> 
> "
> :~# cp /usr/bin/skype{,.bak}
> root@bret-dd-workstation:~# Old=$(skype -v | head -n1 | cut -d " "
> -f2);sed -i "s/$Old/4.3.0.37/g"
> 
> (<unknown>:4748): Gtk-WARNING **:
> /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libclearlooks.so: wrong ELF class:
> ELFCLASS64

Apparently you're using 32-bit skype binary on 64-bit Debian, and skype
tries to load Clearlooks theme engine from a different processor
architecture. Which has nothing to do with this sed hack you've tried,
an original skype would probably behave the same way.

Since you're using Lenny, and more-or-less usable multiarch came with
Wheezy, your best course of action probably would be creating 32-bit
chroot with debootstrap and run skype from there.

Reco