On Thursday 18 December 2008 22:15:40 Star Liu wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > > <b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > > On Thursday 2008 December 18 20:15:00 Star Liu wrote: > >> I found that there is no official debian package for skype, and the > >> deb package from skype official website is from etch(maybe also i386), > >> so how to install skype on sid amd64? thanks > > > > http://debian-multimedia.org/ has skype packages for sid, IIRC. > > thanks, i added the source deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid > main, and updated it, then searched for skype, nothing added, i guess > maybe it's because they do not provide the amd64 version. > > > -- > > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. > > b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) > > ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' > > http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ > > -- > I'm a web developer using > debian+mono(C#)+postgresql+xhtml+javascript+xsl+xml+css > my home is http://www.starliu.com
Ahhh, no amd64 version. There is a work around and it is ugly and it does work here, last I tried it. Download the i386 file. dpkg -i --architecture i386.package.name.deb it will complain of missing dependencies. apt-cache search, or use synaptic and find those packages: go to debian.org and download those packages in i386 packages. Install one at a time using --architecture for dpkg and retry skype. When the magic total is correct, skype will install. Please read dpkg --force-help dpkg --force-anything can bork your box. This did work on my box, it might not work on yours. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser da...@damtek.com 404-271-8691 Cell 678-401-8420 hm http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
