^ Yes, Your advise would be the logical steps if I am to pursue the 64 bit ..
I will have to think on that..
Anyway, I am going to battle a bit more with this 64 bit Salix install upon which I am typing this...
Everything else works perfectly.

Thanks for the thought but the Skype install doesn't seem to work at all without Pulseaudio. All that happens is that in Skye ..Options..Sound the only sound available in that configuraton si Virtual Sound.. Which produces no Sound at all... With Skype Std and Pulseaudio all Works in 32bit.. I just ...

An added point..
I have manged to get Skype working on 64bit Debian and 64bit Gentoo and 64bit Arch

So I am at a loss here..

Thank You for the Reply..
Must be a problem with my x86_64 install of Salix
I still get the same failure and error messages...
I might just have to install 32bit Salix to get skype working..

djemos Need input regarding this new situation.. Thank You Update ran again but This time I uninstalled my previous SlackBuild of pulseaudio BUT got the same Errors... So next I uninstalled pulseaudio using Gslapt which I had installed some time ago via a SlackBuild Then I Reinstalled Your Skype Sl...

I too was not getting sound with Skype install on x86_64 Salix Slackware 14.1... Thank You for the Download ftp location. I downloaded the files including the Greece file which was not necessary for me I believe.. I became super user root# su ..............and then ./skype.SlackBuild Ended up with f...

I suppose that I am missing something here :?: I downloaded first the tar and unarchived it ........... but the results when attempting to run the SlackBuild doinst root[SlackBuild]# ./doinst.sh ./doinst.sh: line 1: cd: lib: No such file or directory and the dir does exist I have not had problems wi...

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