Comments on: Skype on 64-bit Ubuntu Feisty Fawn via i386 chroot (and Gizmo Project too)

By: Carlo Wood

Carlo Wood — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:34:22 +0000

When I run ’skype’ nothing happens, it just returns to the prompt.
After setting $ export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 it works though.

By: colin

colin — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:59:58 +0000

seems to work for me, the opening web links bit. but thats probably because i also run firefox in a chroot (so that i can get flash, and so on)

By: Eemil Lagerspetz

Eemil Lagerspetz — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:52:45 +0000

Hello,
Skype inside chroot cannot open web links.
It will tell You
“Error showing url: There was an error launching the default action command associated with this location.”
recent Skype installed with –force-architecture and with the proper 32-bit libs installed will not show display pictures.
This is my dilemma. Any solutions?

By: byte

byte — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:02:22 +0000

Sound “just works”. didn’t do anything in the chroot, and I configure via volume control in the 64-bit environment

By: Jonas Jensen

Jonas Jensen — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:11:51 +0000

What about getting the sound working? Should I configure the soundcard in chroot and if so how?

Both microphone and speakers are currently working through OSS.

By: Owen5

Owen5 — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:28:43 +0000

For the

echo “feisty /chroot” > /etc/dchroot.conf

error mentioned above, I simply used

sudo gedit(or editor of choice) /etc/dchroot.conf

and created the file with the line of text

feisty /chroot

By: Gianpaolo

Gianpaolo — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:10:10 +0000

It fails while launching chroot /chroot

it returns “chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash’: No such file or directory”

Tried as root of course.

Thanks in advance,
Gianpaolo

By: Duncan

Duncan — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:10:49 +0000

Brilliant guide, thank you very much :-)

Re: Andrew’s comment…. You can type “sudo -i” and enter your own password to gain access to a root prompt. This avoids setting a root password.

I also had some problems setting a locale (step 6). It complained about not being able to set the local when I ran “dpkg-reconfigure locale”:

locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory.

To solve the problem I installed (via “apt-get install”) the following packages:

locales, localeconf, language-pack-en

Then I ran “dpkg-reconfigure localeconf”. You should choose the option to allow debconf to manage your locales, and then pick your chosen locale from the list shown on the following screen.

By: seva

seva — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:21:02 +0000

algo mas sencillo

descarga el tar.gz desde web oficial de skype, compilar y listo

:) saludos

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:28:27 +0000

Manuel, Sam: try typing su to enter superuser mode first. This will require you to have set a root password using ’sudo password root’ first. Be careful with this though, misuse of root can seriously break your box. And be sure to exit root by typing exit as soon as you’re done with the third step.