July 2010 Archives

Well, waiting for the 64bit package (Skype, why you are waiting so long?) this is the fastest way to install Skype on a 64 bit system (now I'm using Debian testing distro).

1. Download the Debian pkg from Skype website

2. Install 32bit compatibility libs. You need: ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk:

   apt-get install ia32libs ia32-libs-gtk

3. Install the skype package forcing the architecture. In my case the package name is skype-debian2.1.0.81-1i386.deb, if it is differente in your case, change it in the following lines:

   dpkg -i --force-architecture skype-debian2.1.0.81-1i386.deb

Well, try to launch skype. If you have a similar error message:

 Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 611: _dl_open: 
 Assertion `_dl_debug_initialize (0, args.nsid)->r_state == RT_CONSISTENT' failed!

you can fix it deactivating the Pulse audio libs. Use the following command to do that:

 chmod a-r /usr/lib32/libpulse*

That's all falks!