Anybody know how to run Skype for Linux on FreeBSD

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Hasse wrote:

>On Wednesday 07 July 2004 02.05, Adam Smith wrote:
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>>On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:02:42AM +0200, Hasse said:
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>>>Thx Adam, I'll certainly will do that.
>>>Shame on ME ,
>>>and my faith in the FreeBSD porters.
>>>Offcourse I should have checked the ports first.
>>>Didn't even imagine it was allready ported. Found out about the
>>>Lin-version today. ( yesterday )
>>>Thx again for bringing this to my attension.
>>>      
>>>

And a big "thanks" to Alexander Neidlinger, as well. :-)


>>A tip that I often use to find something in the ports is to cd to it using
>>this method:
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>>cd /usr/ports/*/skype
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>>If there is only one match, you'll end up in the appropriate directory.  If
>>there's more than one match in several directories, you'll have to find it
>>yourself :)
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>Thx for the tip.
>I usually go to
>http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html
>and search for the ports I'm looking for, but as said, I didn't even dreamed
>of this program was allready ported. Thought it was brand a new lin-version.
>I've used it before in windows-version.
>It's now installed and working as expected, from ports.
>But, again thanks for your help and kindness.
>/ Hasse.
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And then, the old tried && true:

$cd /usr/ports && make search key=skype

KDK