Skype on 64bit without multilib and pulseaudio

[djemos]

install avahi

[laprjns]

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.

Instead of trying to build the Skype package, I suggest you install the pre built binary package that djemos provided. Here the link:
http://www.slackel.gr/repo/x86_64/curre ... 64-1dj.txz
Download the package for this link, then remove all skype and pulseaudion packages that you may have installed, cd to the directoy where you downloaded the skype-nomultlib package and install it by doing this:

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$ sudo spkg -i skype-nomultilib-4.3.0.37-x86_64-1dj.txz

That's it. It installs static versions of the 32 bit libs and a static version of pulseaudio. I can tell you it works here on my 64 bit system

[djemos]

As i wrote above even if pulseaudio included in static build of skype-nomultilib package avahi need to exist. A greek user in a forum in another site wrote that he had no sound and problem solved when installed avahi.
On a dynamic build of pulseaudio avahi is a dep.

[laprjns]

As i wrote above even if pulseaudio included in static build of skype-nomultilib package avahi need to exist.

You are of course correct. If I remove avahi and start Skype I get this error message,

/usr/share/skype/bin/pulseaudio: error while loading shared libraries: libavahi-client.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

and no sound.

Installing avahi results in no error messages and working sound.