Skype 4.0 on Slackware 13.37 64bit
Skype 4.0 runs on Slackware 64 bit. Here's how to make it work.
Download the DEBIAN 64 bit release. Copy it do a new directory. Extract the DEB file inside that directory. You will wind up with 3 files. control.tar.gz data.tar.gz debian.binary The only file that is necessary is data.tar.gz the others are deletable. Copy data.tar.gz to the / directory (filesystem root) and extract it there. tar -zxvf data.tar.gz Skype should now be available inside KDE. Run it log in to skype and setup your sound device. All in all pretty simple for me. May require you to install the 32 bit compat libraries but I'm not sure. Jim |
I have an updated SlackBuild script, adapted from SBo script on my SlackHacks repository
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yes, they are needed, skype is still 32bit only
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$ file /usr/bin/skype |
Sadly skype is still 32 bit only, so you'll need a multilib environment on 64 bit Linux.
Don't know why one would need to download the Debian package when there's a generic .tar.bz2 tarball available. I packaged it using the old SlackBuild from the 2.x series and it works ok only if I disable binary stripping during package creation, otherwise a SEGFAULT is issued when launching the program. |
I can confirm that the Slackbuild written by willsr works. I chose the static64 option and apart from having to download it from the wrong place on the skype site (the 4.0.0.7 version was downloaded via the 2.2beta webpage) and making the SlackBuild executable it worked perfectly.
[edit] Nice first post sparkeyjames, welcome to Slackware on LQ, also welcome to kwll [/edit] samac |
libtiff.so.4 => not found how to install this libraries ..?
i'm using slackware64 -Current with Multilib |
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I downloaded the dynamic package from here.
Yesterday the page was a bit messy because they did not update everything in one go. |
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http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-4.0.0.7.tar.bz2 |
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This work without install 32bit libraries.
skype_static-4.0.0.7-x86_64-1mt.txz |
...because you included them all in /usr/share/skype/lib32 ;)
P.S. just out of curiosity, why is this line in the launch script (/usr/bin/skype)? Code:
rm -f ~/.Skype/Logs/skype*.log ~/.Skype/Logs/skype*.txt |
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