Update 15/6/12: New Skype (4) out this morning. Screengrabs etc posted at the end.
This post came about from a question posted on the Debian forums.
This post came about from a question posted on the Debian forums.
* I don't have debian 6.05 installed on any physical system. They all run debian wheezy
* This guide was done in a virtualbox installation. For sound, I used a headset and USB-passthrough.
Having said that, there's no reason this shouldn't work.
As my system, I used the same one I used here (i.e. a very slim install):
The advantage is that it's likely to a lot more barebones than a regular desktop debian install.
The disadvantage is that I don't know what's pulled in by default by debian 6.05.
Anyway, here's what I did:
1. Download and install skype from skype.com
I selected the Debian 5 64 bit package which is gives you the skype-debian_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb file.
Install:
sudo dpkg -i skype-debian_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb
Selecting previously deselected package skype.
(Reading database ... 53724 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking skype (from skype-debian_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of skype:
skype depends on lib32stdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-21); however:
Package lib32stdc++6 is not installed.
skype depends on lib32asound2 (>> 1.0.14); however:
Package lib32asound2 is not installed.
skype depends on ia32-libs; however:
Package ia32-libs is not installed.
skype depends on lib32gcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-21+ia32.libs.1.19); however:
Package lib32gcc1 is not installed.
skype depends on ia32-libs-gtk; however:
Package ia32-libs-gtk is not installed.
dpkg: error processing skype (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
skype
That's fine. Now fix the dependencies:
sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk lib32asound2 lib32bz2-1.0 lib32gcc1 lib32ncurses5
lib32stdc++6 lib32v4l-0 lib32z1 libv4l-0
Suggested packages:
lib32asound2-plugins
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk lib32asound2 lib32bz2-1.0 lib32gcc1 lib32ncurses5
lib32stdc++6 lib32v4l-0 lib32z1 libv4l-0
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 50.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 123 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
2. Get sounds organised
aptitude search pulseaudio|grep ^i
i A libpulse0 - PulseAudio client libraries
Not enough. Need. More. Packages.
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-gconf
sudo apt-get install gnome-core
Obviously, if you have gnome installed, skip the second line.
Sort out your ~/.asoundrc file
echo "pcm.!default.type pulse">>~/.asoundrc
echo "ctl.!default.type pulse">>~/.asoundrc
At this point I rebooted for good luck.
3. Putting it all together
First open your volume control to see that it 'looks right'
Start Skype
Go to options (click on the S at the bottom left). Make sure it says pulseaudio.
This worked perfectly for me and took all in all ca 25 minutes with screenshots and all.
Skype 4 came out today -- I downloaded and installed it and tested it in the virtual machine above. Everything works perfectly.
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