Running Skype on Hardy 64-bit

[.Froot.]

I decided to install the 64-bit version of Hardy (on my Core 2 Duo) and only now found out that Skype does not have a 64-bit version, not does its 32-bit version run on the AMD64 version of Linux. Is there a way to fix it such that I can run Skype? I do a lot of business communication via Skype, but only in chat form. I don't use VOIP.

 

[stepper]

Download your skype .deb file and install this way:

sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture skype*.deb

 

[.Froot.]

Thanks. I got it working late last night. Just need to write a startup script for it now, haven't figured out another way of getting it to start each time.

 

[milomak]

It has an option to do that somewhere in the settings. At least it does with Debian and Fedora.

 

[.Froot.]

I'll take a look thanks

 

[milomak]

failing that i saw somewhere on gnome a place to list which apps you want to run at startup. seeing as i have only been using gnome for a couple of days i will only be able to tell you what the path to the menu item is.

 

[.Froot.]

failing that i saw somewhere on gnome a place to list which apps you want to run at startup. seeing as i have only been using gnome for a couple of days i will only be able to tell you what the path to the menu item is.

Well I run Kubuntu and I too have seen a startup thingy somewhere but it has skipped my mind and now I can't find it.

 

[milomak]

With KDE do the following in a shell:

# cd ~
# vi ~/.kde/Autostart/skype (Check the spelling and capitalisation of Autostart by doing a ls ~/.kde)
Copy and paste the below into the file

#!/bin/bash
skype

Exit vi by pressing "Shift and ;" (colon sign) and then x
# chmod +x ~/.kde/Autostart/skype

That should have skype startup

 

[.Froot.]

Thanks. will do