Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Install 32bit Skype in 64bit Debian Lenny

# aptitude install ia32-libs-gtk
# dpkg -i --force-architecture --force-depends skype-debian_2.0.0.72-1_i386.deb

Unpacking skype (from .../skype-debian_2.0.0.72-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: skype: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you request:
skype depends on libqt4-core (>= 4.2.1); however:
Package libqt4-core is not installed.
skype depends on libqt4-gui (>= 4.2.1); however:
Package libqt4-gui is not installed.
Setting up skype (2.0.0.72-1) ...

3 comments:

rojoblandino said...
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rojoblandino said...

Great! i did it and i have it working!

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