[Klug-general] Skype on 64 bits

[Karl Lattimer]

On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 10:41 +0100, Mike Rentell wrote:
> 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

Give it a try. Fedora ships a load of 32->64 bit symlinks and compat
libs so it might just be something missing on your distro.

BR,
 K