Michael Neuffer <neuf...@neuffer.info> writes:
> 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
No, you need to call
ia32-dpkg -i pkg.version_i386.deb
That's what ia32-apt-get adds.
MfG
Goswin
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