[Klug-general] Skype on 64 bits

Mike Rentell michael.rentell at ntlworld.com
Sun Jul 20 10:41:53 BST 2008


Karl Lattimer wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 10:22 +0100, Mike Rentell wrote:
>> Good morning all,
>> Has anyone managed to get Skype working on a 64 bit machine with a 
>> 64-bit Linux? If I use the 32-bit version of the OS it works fine but 
>> simply refuses to function on the 64-bit version. The offering from 
>> Skype seems to be only 32-bit.
>> Any ideas?
> 
> Works fine for me on Fedora 9 x86_64 edition
> 
> BR,
>  K
> 
> 
Hmm - interesting. I wonder if it is a library placement thing. I've got 
around another problem with a different app by putting symlinks into the 
/usr/lib for particular libraries which are only in /usr/lib64

MikeR



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