Skype

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Wed, 17 May 2006 12:05:09 +0300
Adi Pircalabu <apircalabu at bitdefender.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 May 2006 22:47:42 -1000 Stephen Bartlett wrote:
> 
> > > linux_enable="YES"
> > > should be enough.
> > 
> > FWIW, I had had Skype running fine on 6.0-RELEASE -- then it stopped
> > working for some unknown reason.  Symptoms were that the Skype
> > process would start, fire up some child processes, but never bring up
> > any windows.
> > 
> > I upgraded to 6.1-RELEASE, did a portupgrade, and still had the same
> > problem with Skype.  After reading that other people still were able
> > to run Skype, I decided to start all over with it: deinstalled
> > net/skype, deinstalled the emulators/linux_base-suse-9.3 that I'd
> > been using, and 'rm -rf /compat/linux/*'.  Then, I just:
> > 
> > cd /usr/ports/net/skype
> > make install
> > (that ended up installing linux_base-8)
> 
> Yep, but you've probably been left with outdated libraries. Try to use
> portupgrade or portmanager, they both do a very good job in updating
> dependencies.
> 
> > 
> > Although the build/install went fine, Skype wouldn't start due to
> > missing libraries.  So I copied them over from a Linux partition
> > (happens to be Gentoo): libGL.so.1 libXmu.so.6
> > libXrandr.so.2
> > libXcursor.so.1
> > libXft.so.2
> > libSM.so.6
> > libICE.so.6
> > libXext.so.6
> > libX11.so.6
> > libXxf86vm.so.1
> > libXt.so.6
> > libXrender.so.1
> > libexpat.so.0

Interesting enough, while I have this files on my system, pkg_info -O
on them doesn't return anything. Adi, could you please check on your system ?

> Mine works ok, 6.1-STABLE as of yesterday. I think your system misses
> some updated linux-\* ports:
> 
> pkg_glob -R skype
> linux_dri-4.4.0
> linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_4
> linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_7
> linux_base-8-8.0_14
> linux-expat-1.95.7_1
> skype-1.2.0.18
> Do you have latest versions of the above installed?

 # pkg_info -Rr skype-1.2.0.18
Information for skype-1.2.0.18:

Depends on:
Dependency: linux_base-8-8.0_14
Dependency: linux-expat-1.95.7_1
Dependency: linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_4
Dependency: linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_7
Dependency: linux_dri-4.4.0



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