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Meaniemoo

Member

Registered: 2010-08-11

Posts: 1

Installing Skype

Hi, I'm a new user trying to install Skype
In the terminal I type pacman -S skype and it says error: 'skype' could not find or read package

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Installing Skype

Pick a mirror from https://www.archlinux.de/?page=MirrorStatus , place it in your pacman.conf, like so:

[community]
Server = http://archlinux.mirrors.uk2.net/$repo/os/$arch

refresh your mirrorlist 'pacman -Syy' and try again installing skype.

jwbirdsong

Member

From: Western KS USA

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 173

Re: Installing Skype

I'm betting you have 64bit then.  Search here and/or wiki.  LOTS of results.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sky … stallation

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Inxsible

Forum Fellow

From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: Installing Skype

you can install the bin32-skype from aur like jwbirdsong mentioned or if you don't want to mingle the 64 bit libraries with 32 bit, then you can create a separate chroot and install all 32 bit apps in there.

If you are not comfortable in creating a chroot manually, you can use Xyne's amazing arch32-light from AUR, which basically creates and sets up a 32 bit chroot for you.

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