Do you know will anybody intend to maintain the skype packages for Debian? I am not aware of any DD maintaining skype packages, but Skype used to have a debian repository at: deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free which might serve your needs. But not for amd64 Cheers Mike Yes it does, with ia32-apt-get. I agree with you. You can install it as a 32bit package with ia32-apt-get (or as I did: either completely manually with some help from getlibs) I wish these stupid multi vs. bi-arch wars were finally over. as long as there is no finalised multi-arch infrastructure, I believe ia32-apt-get is a good thing. Cheers Mike