Skype issues?

[Derrick Edwards]

     Thanks Alexander,
I had rh 9 installed. I installed rh8 and not reinstall skype. Now it works.
v/r
Derrick

On Saturday 22 April 2006 11:57, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Am Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:09:35 -0400
>
> schrieb Derrick Edwards <derrick at uniquestrength.net>:
> > 	Hi,
> > When I try to run skype I get the following message.
> >
> > [derrick at focus /usr/home/derrick]$ skype
> > skype_bin: error while loading shared libraries: libXmu.so.6: cannot open
> > shared object file: No such file or directory
> >
> > So, I try to install it and I get this message. I cant deinstall Xorg so
> > what should I do?
>
> Somehow your installation is buggy. Please make sure you are using
> linux-base-8. Without further information about your environment I can
> just suggest to do:
>  - ls -1 /var/db/pkg | grep linux	# keep this info somehow
>  - deinstall every of those ports
>  - install skype (it should install linux_base-8 and some other linux
>    ports) and make sure it runs
>  - have a look at the list from the first step and look for those
>    applications only which you absolutely know you want to run
>  - install those linux apps (maybe the linux jdk or linux opera or
>    whatever)
>
> Bye,
> Alexander.