Oh, tonight is a night of success! :)

Thanks to this guide i have just managed to get Skype working on my 64-bit Debian. It required a few extra libraries for me. I am impressed by this getlibs trick. I think i'll be using that a few more times. Thanks lovely lovely thoughtful people who make Linux life so much easier!

The first thing is to download the latest version of Skype packaged for i386. There are a few pre-requisites, then you install it with --force-architecture.

# apt-get install ia32-libs
# apt-get install libqt4-core libqt4-gui
# dpkg -i --force-architecture skype-debian_2.0.0.68-1_i386.deb

Try running Skype.

$ skype
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I'm not sure whether this bit was actually necessary. It certainly didn't make it work:

# apt-get install libxss1 libxss1-dbg libxss-dev

Getlibs is the way to go! Download from http://www.boundlesssupremacy.com/Cappy/getlibs/getlibs-all.deb

And then:

# dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb
# getlibs -32 libXss.so.1
# getlibs -32 libQtDBus.so.4
# getlibs -32 libQtGui.so.4
# getlibs -32 libdbus-1.so.3

Try again
$ skype

And it works! :) Unfortunately none of my friends are online so i can't test whether it actually works! I may still have some microphone issues to work out.

Update: Aha, i got the microphone input to work. It's really simple: you just go to Volume Control and unmute the Capture. If you don't see that option, go to Edit - Preferences and tick on 'Capture'.

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