HOWTO: Run Medibuntu Skype on Intrepid Ibex 64-bit

[hyper_ch]

HOWTO: Run Medibuntu Skype on Intrepid Ibex 64-bit

Introduction

Skype is only available as 32-bit application. Even when you use the Medibuntu repos it's only 32-bit. However the current Medibuntu build lacks a few 32-bit libraries as dependencies. This can be "easily" solved by manually adding the required libs.

The Script

Well, first the little script that makes it work:

#!/bin/bash

mkdir /tmp/skype
mkdir /tmp/skype/tmp
cd /tmp/skype

wget http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/pool/main/q/qt4-x11/libqtgui4_4.4.2-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
wget http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/pool/main/q/qt4-x11/libqt4-network_4.4.2-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
wget http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/pool/main/q/qt4-x11/libqtcore4_4.4.2-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
wget http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/pool/main/q/qt4-x11/libqt4-xml_4.4.2-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
wget http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/pool/main/q/qt4-x11/libqt4-dbus_4.4.2-0ubuntu2_i386.deb

dpkg -x libqtgui4_4.4.2-0ubuntu2_i386.deb /tmp/skype/tmp
dpkg -x libqt4-network_4.4.2-0ubuntu2_i386.deb /tmp/skype/tmp
dpkg -x libqtcore4_4.4.2-0ubuntu2_i386.deb /tmp/skype/tmp
dpkg -x libqt4-xml_4.4.2-0ubuntu2_i386.deb /tmp/skype/tmp
dpkg -x libqt4-dbus_4.4.2-0ubuntu2_i386.deb /tmp/skype/tmp

cp -a /tmp/skype/tmp/usr/lib/* /usr/lib32/

Step 1: Install Skype from Medibuntu

First, install Skype from the Medibuntu repos. Go to the website here and follow the Repository Howto link: http://www.medibuntu.org/

Once you have done that, get Skype by issuing:

sudo apt-get install skype

Step 2: Run my script

Now open a text file (e.g. script.sh), paste the content of the script in there. Once done, run it by issuing:

sudo sh script.sh

Step 3: Enjoy

That's all that is required. Thx goes also to jdong for giving me a few pointers.

Step 4: Pulseaudio

If you continue having problems on getting this to run and you are running Ubuntu or Xubuntu (or any flavour with PulseAudio), you also need to do this here:

Another workaround that works for me:
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.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...693/comments/6

Thx goes to Slavik for pointing this out and to dmitry to actually post that solution on launchpad.

[iamjfarrell]

I followed your instructions exactly and it did not work for some reason. I had skype working on 8.04 but now that I upgraded it doesn't seem to want to work! Help Please!

[hyper_ch]

it seems, that I had, with some other package, another library isntalled that's required...

run this additionally and I'll update my code up there:

cd /tmp/skype
wget http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/ubuntu/pool/main/q/qt4-x11/libqt4-dbus_4.4.1-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
dpkg -x libqt4-dbus_4.4.1-0ubuntu2_i386.deb /tmp/skype/tmp
sudo cp -a /tmp/skype/tmp/usr/lib/* /usr/lib32/

[iamjfarrell]

I am now getting 404 errors when I try to run your script. I have to switch to windows to run skype! Let me know if I can help in any way.

[hyper_ch]

plz post the output

did you reboot the system meanwhile?

[benjym]

I followed the instructions and got the following output from each file i tried to download.

--2008-09-25 07:59:35-- http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/u...untu2_i386.deb
Resolving mirror.switch.ch... 130.59.10.36
Connecting to mirror.switch.ch|130.59.10.36|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2008-09-25 07:59:37 ERROR 404: Not Found.

Tried again with versions 4_4.4.2-0 and it works. Seems that those libraries have been updated in the last couple of days.

[hyper_ch]

ah, today's updates changed the version of all those files...

--> http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/u...ain/q/qt4-x11/

Run the new altered script now.

[benjym]

the latest script works to install skype, and it loads. when i try to login, however, i get the following errors:

ALSA lib ../../src/conf.c:2700snd_config_hooks_call) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_conf_pulse.so
ALSA lib ../../../src/control/control.c:909snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0
Aborted (core dumped)

any ideas?

[iamjfarrell]

There we go! now it is working, but whenever I try to make a call it just closes.

[hyper_ch]

Originally Posted by benjym the latest script works to install skype, and it loads. when i try to login, however, i get the following errors: ALSA lib ../../src/conf.c:2700snd_config_hooks_call) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_conf_pulse.so ALSA lib ../../../src/control/control.c:909snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0 Aborted (core dumped) any ideas?

a problem with pulseaudio... using Kubuntu I don't run it.

Originally Posted by iamjfarrell There we go! now it is working, but whenever I try to make a call it just closes.

run skype from the command line and then you'll get some output of what's going on.