Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Michael Neuffer wrote: >> Wolodja Wentland wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 07:53 +0400, James Brown wrote: >>> >>>> Do you know will anybody intend to maintain the skype packages for Debian? >>>> >>> I am not aware of any DD maintaining skype packages, but Skype used to have >>> a >>> debian repository at: >>> >>> deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free >>> >>> which might serve your needs. >>> >> But not for amd64 >> >> Cheers >> Mike >> >> > I have installed the 32 bit version of Skype on a pure 64 bit install of > Debian (lenny when it was testing) and it worked fine. Don't ask me how > it worked, but it did. I found the idea on the old Linux forum at Skype > as someone else had done it before and posted their results. There were > a few amd64 bit users on that forum who installed 32 bit Skype and it > worked for all of us, at least all of us who posted back to the forum on > the subject after trying it. > > IIRC all I did was download the .deb for Debian from Skype and run dpkg > -i pkg.version.deb and it worked.
The minimum you need to do in that case is to force the architecture and then install all missing 32bit libraries. Cheers Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
