Install Skype - Ubuntu 8.04

Posted by John
on Sunday, 11 May 2008

To install Skype on an AMD-64 system, you'll need the 32-bit libraries (if you're distro is 32-bit, skip this bit),

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

Now grab the qt4 libraries,

sudo apt-get install libqt4-gui libqt4-core

Download the appropriate Skype package from...

Firefox should download it to your desktop so...

cd Desktop
sudo dpkg --install --force-architecture --force-depends skype-debian_2.0.0.72-1_i386.deb

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

Leave a response Comments
  1. Jani – Thursday, 15 May 2008
    I cannot find the package called ia32-libs in my current repositories.
  2. John – Thursday, 15 May 2008
    Sorry, you only need ia32-libs if you're on a 32-bit build, otherwise skip it
  3. Artie – Saturday, 31 May 2008
    Thanks a lot! :D
  4. NARicho – Monday, 22 September 2008
    Great! just what i was looking for!
  5. artichoken – Sunday, 28 September 2008
    thnx !!!
  6. sr – Saturday, 18 October 2008
    very easy, thanks!
  7. Cliff – Thursday, 30 October 2008
    Did anyone encounter any problem with sound??? If you have any solutions, please let me know! Much appreciated!
  8. Deepanshu – Saturday, 01 November 2008
    Thanks, its really easy and clean way of describing things.

    Great work.
  9. mag – Tuesday, 04 November 2008
    Hey, I have Ubuntu 8.04, (i ve just started to work under ubuntu), please give me so feedback aboot skype under ubuntu, coz this link in pc is not working at all.
    http://www.skype.com/intl/de/download/skype/linux/choose/
    and i ve still status: Error: Wrong architecture `i386`
    It should works for 64? or not. mine is 64
    thank for all
    magda
  10. John – Wednesday, 05 November 2008
    You'll need the ia-32 libraries to run the 32-bit program inside your 64-build (only supplied as a 32bit binary at the moment).

    sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

    Checked the link and found a better one,

    http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/download/skype/linux/

    Hope this fixes things for you ;-)
  11. john – Wednesday, 05 November 2008
    If you want a 64-bit binary this site blogs how to build one yourself.

    http://www.smop.co.uk/blog/index.php/2007/11/13/skype-2x-on-linux-64-bit/
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