The Quantum of Solace

Bond 22, out November 7th 2008

To install Skype on an AMD64 system, you’ll need the 32-bit libraries (if you’re distro is 32-bit, skip this),

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

Then download the appropriate package from…

• Skype Linux

Firefox should download it to your desktop so…

cd Desktop
sudo dpkg --install --force-architecture --force-depends skype-debian_2.0.0.68-1_i386.deb

And you’re done, with the Webcam driver installed and enabled you should now be able to make video calls too.

• Ubuntu Webcam Install

Setting up the built-in webcam on the HP DV2000 laptop isn’t that hard, here’s a quick run thru…

Dependencies

First install all the dependencies your going to need to build the drivers from source,

sudo aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r`
sudo aptitude install build-essential subversion

This will install the GCC compiler, linux headers, etc.

Build Driver

Now in Terminal,

svn checkout svn://svn.berlios.de/linux-uvc/linux-uvc/trunk
cd trunk
sudo make
sudo make install

First you pull the Linux-UVC source from Subversion, move to that directory, compile the source the install the binaries.

Check for Webcam

Now check to see if you have any USB video devices (your webcam usually)

sudo lsusb -v

Scroll thru all the entries, one should be the webcam.

Use it

Next up we’ll need some tools to use it,

sudo aptitude install ekiga cheese

Cheese is a simple webcam recorder, much like Apple’s, allowing you to take a photo from your webcam and apply some neat effects to it real-time, the other is a more convential tool to use it.

Tested & Working on Ubuntu 8.04

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