Skype

[Duane Whitty]

Hi,

Here is the procedure I used when trying to get skype to work:

dwpc@ /root# brandelf -t Linux /usr/X11R6/bin/skype_bin
dwpc@ /root# skype
ELF binary type "3" not known.
skype_bin: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected


Here's my info:

FreeBSD dwpc.dwlabs.ca 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Tue May  9 
00:04:45 ADT 2006     
duane at dwpc.dwlabs.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DWPC-KERNEL  i386

/etc/rc.conf

# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Tue Feb 28 21:25:35 2006
# Created: Tue Feb 28 21:25:35 2006
# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
hostname="dwpc.dwlabs.ca"
ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP"
cupsd_enable="YES"
named_enable="YES"
linux_enable="YES"
usbd_enable="YES"
inetd_enable="YES"
smbd_enable="YES"
nmbd_enable="YES"
sendmail_enable="YES"
apache22_enable=1
mysql_enable=1

dwpc@ /root# pkg_info | grep linux
linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_7 XFree86 libraries, Linux binary
linux-expat-1.95.7_1 Linux/i386 binary port of Expat XML-parsing library
linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_3 Linux/i386 binary of Fontconfig
linux-sun-jdk-1.4.2.10 Sun Java Development Kit 1.4 for Linux
linux_base-8-8.0_14 Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (for 
i386/amd64)
linux_dri-4.4.0     Binary Linux DRI libraries for 3D hardware 
acceleration of
linuxdoc-1.1_1      The Linuxdoc SGML DTD
linuxpluginwrapper-20051113_2 A wrapper allowing use of linux-plugins 
with native applica
sgmlformat-1.7_2    Generates groff and HTML from linuxdoc and docbook 
SGML doc


Does anyone have any ideas on how to make this work

Please CC me as I'm not tracking multimedia@

Thanks in advance

Duane Whitty
-- 
duane at greenmeadow.ca