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Skype is not available on the official repositories of Debian Squeeze/Sid AMD64, so here it is a guide on how to manually install it. First we need to install some dependencies that, fortunately, are available on the repositories: sudo apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk Than we need to download the "Dynamic Static" version of Skype from the download page. Once you have done it, you have to install it with the following commands from a terminal: tar xjvf skype-2.1.0.81.tar.bz2 sudo mv skype-2.1.0.81 /opt/skype Than you can create the launcher in /usr/bin: sudo vim/usr/bin/skype And inside it you should write (or just copy and paste): #!/bin/bash cd /opt/skype ./skype Than make it executable: sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/skype Then to update the applications menu use the following commands from the terminal: sudo cp /opt/skype/skype.desktop /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop sudo vim /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop And change the following line: Iconskype.png with: Icon/opt/skype/icons/SkypeBlue_48x48.png And so you should have a functional Skype on Debian Squeeze/Sid AMD64.

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