[solved] skype not in repos?

Question

Hi, I wanted to test skype in my 64 bit installation (with KDEmod, of course). Searched and found http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Skype. As per the wiki entry, though skype has only 32 bit binary, it can be run in 64 bit environment. In my system, community repo is already enabled. So I did a
sudo pacman -S skype
. But the result was
skype package not found, searching for group...
error: 'skype': not found in sync db
Funny thing is that, I am able to install skype-call-recorder even without installing skype.
What should be done to install skype now?
Last edited by absolutevoid (2010-02-05 11:37:41)

Answer 1

ls -l /home/iron/Desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 iron users 21613953 Фев 14 18:25 skype_static-2.0.0.72.tar.bz2
# Contributor: revel <[email protected]>
# based on bin32-skype and skype-oss
_pkgsourcename=skype_static
_pkgresourcename=skype
pkgname=bin32-skype-oss
pkgver=2.0.0.72
pkgrel=3
pkgdesc="P2P software for high-quality voice communication (OSS-compatible version)"
url="/home/iron/Desktop"
license=('custom')
arch=('x86_64')
source=(/home/iron/Desktop/$_pkgsourcename-$pkgver-oss.tar.bz2)
depends=('lib32-pcre' 'lib32-qt>=4.2.1' 'lib32-dbus-core' 'lib32-libxv' 'lib32-libxss' 'lib32-glib2' 'lib32-alsa-lib')
provides=('skype')
conflicts=('bin32-skype')
md5sums=('cfaa796ef55e3f858a09bbe096eded5a')
build() {
cd $startdir/src/${_pkgsourcename}-${pkgver}-oss
install -m 755 -d ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/${_pkgresourcename}/sounds
install -m 644 sounds/* ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/${_pkgresourcename}/sounds
install -m 755 -D ${_pkgresourcename} ${startdir}/pkg/usr/bin/${_pkgresourcename}
install -m 644 -D ${_pkgresourcename}.conf ${startdir}/pkg/etc/dbus-1/system.d/${_pkgresourcename}.conf
install -m 644 -D icons/SkypeBlue_16x16.png ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/${_pkgresourcename}.png
install -m 644 -D icons/SkypeBlue_32x32.png ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/${_pkgresourcename}.png
install -m 644 -D icons/SkypeBlue_48x48.png ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/${_pkgresourcename}.png
install -m 644 -D icons/SkypeBlue_48x48.png ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/pixmaps/${_pkgresourcename}.png
install -m 644 -D ${_pkgresourcename}.desktop ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/applications/${_pkgresourcename}.desktop
install -m 644 -D LICENSE ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/licenses/${_pkgresourcename}/LICENSE
==> ERROR: /home/iron/Desktop/skype_static-2.0.0.72-oss.tar.bz2 was not found in the build directory and is not a URL.
Error: Makepkg was unable to build bin32-skype-oss package.
Last edited by veranyon (2010-02-14 15:44:07)