How to Get Skype Running on 64-Bit “Hardy Heron”

by Joey deVilla on April 27, 2008

How to Get Skype Running on Your 64-Bit Linux Box: If you’re running Linux on a Core Duo or AMD64-based machine, you haven’t been able to run Skype on it…until now! If you’ve got a 64-bit machine running the latest Ubuntu — version 8.04, a.k.a. “Hardy Heron”, enter the following on the command line and you’ll be Skyping away (and not just text chat, but audio and video as well): sudo apt-get install ia32-libs lib32asound2; wget -O skype-install.deb http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-ubuntu; sudo dpkg -i --force-all skype-install.deb; (there’s also stuff for getting Skype to work on previous 64-bit Ubuntus and dealing with a webcam that refuses to work).

{ 5 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Andrew April 27, 2008 at 11:40 pm

Cheers for that, was exactly what I was looking for!

2 Phil May 1, 2008 at 8:55 am

Thanks for the tip.

3 Octav May 14, 2008 at 3:52 pm

Thanks !

4 Daniel September 2, 2008 at 10:51 pm

That worked great

5 Edgar September 27, 2008 at 7:30 am

Thanks for your tip

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