Skype

Beech Rintoul beech at freebsd.org
Tue Apr 15 04:00:16 UTC 2008


On Monday 14 April 2008, Eduardo Cerejo said:
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:35:48 +0000
>
> Sébastien Morand <seb.morand at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I'm trying to install skype on freebsd 7.0-stable, but I can't
> > find out what I'm missing. I found several procedures on the web,
> > but none of them was really efficient to get it working. I thnk I
> > have know severa linux_base installation, maybe it could be the
> > problem, so how to fix it?
> >
> > My /etc/make.conf contains the line:
> > OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f8
> >
> > Actually the install is finem but everytime I launch skype, I
> > have only a white window with End User License Agreement. I can
> > see grey band at the top and the bottom of the window instead of
> > the menu and status bar (I suppose).
> >
> > I try to download Skype 2 but libasound2 is required, so I was
> > not able to get it working.
> >
> > How can I get a decent skype installation?

What FreeBSD version are you running? 
Skype 2.0 hasn't been ported yet (I'm working on it). 


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