On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Eben King wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 04:08:21AM -0500, Eben King wrote:
>>
>>> I downloaded and untarred Skype. Can't run it here (Ubuntu 8.04,
>>> 2.6.26.5)
>>> but I can in a VM (Ubuntu 8.10, 2.6.24.7). Here I get:
>>>
>>> eben@pc:/misc/torrent/skype-2.0.0.72$ ./skype
>>> bash: ./skype: cannot execute binary file
>>>
>>> eben@pc:/misc/torrent/skype-2.0.0.72$ file ./skype
>>> ./skype: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for
>>> GNU/Linux 2.4.1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
>>>
>>> eben@pc:/misc/torrent/skype-2.0.0.72$ ldd ./skype
>>> not a dynamic executable
>>>
>>> I don't think the distro matters much, since I have different
>>> custom-compiled kernels in each location. Any idea why this won't work?
>>> How do I check if I can execute 32-bit programs?
>>
>> I hate to point out the obvious, but an error like this from bash
>> typically means that execute permissions are turned off for the file.
>> You might try chmod +x skype.
>
> Nope:
>
> eben@pc:/misc/torrent/skype-2.0.0.72$ ls -l skype
> 14M -rwxr-xr-x 1 eben eben 14M 2008-05-28 06:16 skype*
>
> "./sk<tab>" worked, so I had a fairly good idea that wasn't the case
> beforehand.
This was off:
Executable file formats / Emulations --->
[*] IA32 Emulation
I don't know how it got turned off, since it started out on. Gremlins, I
guess. Anyhow, that let Skype run. But it turns out there's a bug in
gspca* (my camera's driver) that only show up on 64-bit AMD systems, like
mine. My luck. Maybe now's the chance to use that 32-bit VM.
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