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Skype on Linux 64-bit
Eish man! So the other day I wanted to install Skype on Ubuntu Hardy. Obviously I'm running the 64-bit version as I'm sure most other people are doing these days. All the new dual-core machines are in essence 64-bit so there's no point running a 32-bit operating system on that (although I'm not exactly sure what the point is of running a 64-bit operating system either, unless you have more than 3 GB of memory (4 GB actually but then there's that stupid memory hole that lots of people get caught up in). I'm only running 2 GB of RAM so it isn't so bad.
Nevertheless, I think 64-bit must be quite popular these days. So I downloaded the Linux version of Skype and when I tried to install it using dpkg, I got a message that the platform is incorrect. Bah, I should have known. And there Skype goes and screws me again. Now I have to go with the generic versions and will probably have all kinds of shit with dependencies. Life is never easy, eh?
Btw, anybody know of any (reliable, secure and updated) Skype Debian packages for Ubuntu?
Copyright © 2004-2009 Charl van Niekerk. All articles are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa licence, unless where otherwise stated.
4 Comments
Comment by
Daniel on Saturday, May 03, 2008 11:40:00 AM
Just grab the static binary tarball. Yea I know it's not a dpkg, but I use that daily on a 64bit Ubuntu laptop. Untar in /usr/local or wherever and you're done.
Comment by
Michael on Saturday, May 03, 2008 11:59:00 AM
Medibuntu (http://medibuntu.org) has Skype in the non-free section. Not sure how up to date it is though.
Comment by
Jonathan Hitchcock on Saturday, May 03, 2008 1:43:00 PM
No, most people are not using 64 bit Linux.
As you yourself said, there's no reason to use 64 bit Linux unless you have more than 4 gigs (or thereabouts) of RAM.
And as for reasons not to use 64 bit Linux? Well, read the rest of your own post.
Comment by
Brad Whittington on Saturday, May 03, 2008 6:30:00 PM
1. Medibuntu
2. You might find a useful starting point in this article: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/583
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