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LiteHacker

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Registered: 2008-11-27

Posts: 38

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Can't get Skype?

Hello,

Based on the wiki, Skype is in "community"
My "/etc/pacman.conf" has community uncommented. I type in "pacman -Sy skype" and it says that the package doesn't exist.

I tried loading it with ABS.. skype wasn't in the ABS tree.

I looked through AUR and found this PKGBUILD:
http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/c … ev=CURRENT

Unfortunately apparently everything here is only for i686.

Am I missing something?

LiteHacker

ghostHack

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From: Bristol UK

Registered: 2008-02-29

Posts: 261

Re: Can't get Skype?

You're not missing anything, skype is a 32-bit only binary.  You either need to set up a 32bit chroot or use the bin32-skype package from AUR (which will need some of the lib32-* packages from [community]).

phil90

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Registered: 2008-09-13

Posts: 36

Re: Can't get Skype?

There is not skype for 64 bit architecture

This may help if you want to make 32 bit software works under 64 bit.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arc … bit_system

You may wish to look at the many  other thread about this subject

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=34895

Last edited by phil90 (2008-11-30 21:01:59)