Re: Faking it with skype
On 17/09/2014, Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
I am unfamiliar (I do not know which is which) with the Debian version
names relative to the version numbers, but I am using Debian 6 LTS,
and, etc/apt/sources.list , show it to be Debian squeeze-lts.
The existing, installed, skype version number is Skype 2.2.0.35.
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Bret Busby
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West Australia
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