Skype on Ubuntu 11.04 64Bit webcam fix

This is and old trick that eventually would be useful in newer versions of skype. Problem: webcam doesn't work!! It seems that the problem lies that skype does not load the corresponding 32bit- video for linux 1 libraries. In order to fix the issue: Goto /usr/bin and locate the binary file for skype. Rename it to skype.bin

$ mv skype skype.bin

Create in the same directory a new file called skype and put in it:

#!/bin/bash
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so /usr/bin/skype.bin $@

Change the permissions to make it executable:

$ chmod ugo+x /usr/bin/skype

and voilà!