Comments on: How to Install Skype 2 on 64-bit Ubuntu

By: n0mad

n0mad — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:50:14 +0000

Saved my day.
thanks!

By: rwheindl

rwheindl — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:18:11 +0000

Skype Version 2.1.0.47 64bit is released for 8.10, and it installed fine on my Ubuntu Studio (8.04) installation - worked like a charm.

By: guy

guy — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:09:23 +0000

Thanks for the useful post!
The skype-static-oss package solved my problems.

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:25:15 +0000

Hey guys there is a 64 bit version available by Skype at

http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-ubuntu-amd64

By: mariuz

mariuz — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:18:27 +0000

Here are the issues i have fixed on my amd64 intrepid box with pulse audio

http://mapopa.blogspot.com/2008/10/skype-2.html

ps:please don’t use aptitude , in my case it removes some packages that i stil need them

By: mariuz

mariuz — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:44:34 +0000

here is the solution for skype 2.0 on intrepid amd64

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ia32-libs/+bug/273693

1. Create /etc/ld.so.conf.d/alsa32.conf with the following contents:
/usr/lib32/alsa-lib

2. Create /etc/ld.so.conf.d/alsa64.conf with the following contents:
/usr/lib/alsa-lib

3. sudo ldconfig

4. Open /usr/share/alsa/pulse.conf in the editor and remove the “/usr/lib/alsa-lib/” prefix from the libasound_module_conf_pulse.so file.

By: Jacques

Jacques — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:10:23 +0000

Method 1 did not work until I realised that you need to have 2 neg signs in front of the force command:

-- force

In the text, the word processor combined them to look like one symbol.

By: Marco

Marco — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:12:37 +0000

Interesting article, but read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SkypeEthics before deciding of installing Skype

By: admin

admin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:36:20 +0000

@kushykush

You have two options now

1) Press Alt+F2 and enter skype click on Run

2)add a menu icon from the command line

sudo gedit ~/Desktop/Skype.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=2.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=skype
Name=Skype
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/skype.png

After this now you need to go to Applications--->Internet--->Skype

By: kushykush

kushykush — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:46:50 +0000

It appears that medibuntu has installed Skype. But I do not see it. Where did it install?

By: kushykush

kushykush — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:28:45 +0000

None of the above worked for me under Ubuntu Intrepid 64 bit. The medibuntu seemed to work best. It worked flawlessly. However, Skype is no where to be found? I am wondering how I can uninstall because it might cause problems?? Please advise. Thanks!