Global Nerdy » 64-bit http://www.globalnerdy.com Tech Evangelist Joey deVilla on software development, tech news and other nerdy stuff Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:24:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How to Get Skype Running on 64-Bit “Hardy Heron” http://www.globalnerdy.com/2008/04/27/how-to-get-skype-running-on-64-bit-hardy-heron/ http://www.globalnerdy.com/2008/04/27/how-to-get-skype-running-on-64-bit-hardy-heron/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:22:41 +0000 Joey deVilla http://globalnerdy.com/?p=1617

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).

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