Is skype only usable on intel and not on AMD64?

Andy Fawcett andy at athame.co.uk
Mon Dec 31 06:35:39 PST 2007


On Monday 31 December 2007 15:43:09 eculp wrote:
> When trying to install skype on an acer amd turrion64x2 model
> 5520-5679 using the latest Current snapshot for AMD64, I see the
> following:
>
> /usr/ports/net/skype # make install
> ===>  Installing for skype-1.2.0.18,1
> ===>   skype-1.2.0.18,1 depends on file:
> /compat/linux/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 - found
> ===>   skype-1.2.0.18,1 depends on file:
> /compat/linux/usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 - found
> ===>   skype-1.2.0.18,1 depends on file:
> /compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 - not found
> ===>    Verifying install for /compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1
> in /usr/ports/graphics/linux_dri
> ===>  linux_dri-7.0 is only for i386, while you are running amd64.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/linux_dri.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Maybe I am missing something in my linux emulation.  I have installed
>
> linux_base-f7-7
>
> and in sysctl.conf
>
> compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16

I hit the same, and over-rode the amd64 block manually in linux_dri. So far, 
it's working fine for me on 7.0/amd64 (even without the osrelease syscall)

Andy


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