Skype 2 on Debian AMD64
I've got this info from here . When trying to use a static version of Skype 2.x (in my case 2.0.0.68) Skype does not start and complains with a message: ./skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory In order to start Skype you will need to get 32 bit libXss. # create a temporary directory mkdir temp cd temp # download libxss1 (if this version is # unavailable try choose another version # for i386 architecture) wget ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libx/libxss/libxss1_1.1.3-1_i386.deb # extract the files dpkg -x libxss1_1.1.3-1_i386.deb . #copy the extracted files to /usr/lib32 cd usr/lib/ sudo cp libXss.* /usr/lib32/ Note Running Skype in Debian might require some additional 32 bit libraries, but this one was the only one required for me to upgrade working Skype 1.x to Skype 2.x.