<div dir="ltr">Hi Mike <br><br>I got it going by installing the 32bit QT Libraries: Skype is a 32-bit app so you need the 32-bit versions of those packages
installed as well. They go into a different directory, so they can
coexist with the 64-bit libraries.<br><br>I did it on a machine for my mum so i cant check the exact packakes reguired but libqt4-32 and one other are needed (something along the lines of lib***-devel? maybe). She should be at home tomorrow if you would like me to have a look see on her machine.<br>
<br>Hope this helps.<br><br>Rob<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Karl Lattimer <<a href="mailto:karl@qdh.org.uk">karl@qdh.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 11:18 +0100, Mike Rentell wrote:<br>
><br>
> Karl Lattimer wrote:<br>
> > On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 10:41 +0100, Mike Rentell wrote:<br>
> >> Karl Lattimer wrote:<br>
> >>> On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 10:22 +0100, Mike Rentell wrote:<br>
> >>>> Good morning all,<br>
> >>>> Has anyone managed to get Skype working on a 64 bit machine with a<br>
> >>>> 64-bit Linux? If I use the 32-bit version of the OS it works fine but<br>
> >>>> simply refuses to function on the 64-bit version. The offering from<br>
> >>>> Skype seems to be only 32-bit.<br>
> >>>> Any ideas?<br>
> >>> Works fine for me on Fedora 9 x86_64 edition<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> BR,<br>
> >>> K<br>
> >>><br>
> >>><br>
> >> Hmm - interesting. I wonder if it is a library placement thing. I've got<br>
> >> around another problem with a different app by putting symlinks into the<br>
> >> /usr/lib for particular libraries which are only in /usr/lib64<br>
> ><br>
> > Give it a try. Fedora ships a load of 32->64 bit symlinks and compat<br>
> > libs so it might just be something missing on your distro.<br>
> ><br>
> > BR,<br>
> > K<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> Instead of just clicking on the Skype icon, I popped up a console and<br>
> typed 'skype'. The failure message was:<br>
><br>
> error while loading shared libraries: libQTDBus.so.4: cannot open shared<br>
> object file. No such file or directory<br>
><br>
><br>
> So I searched for that library and found libQTDBus.so.4.3.1 in both<br>
> /usr/lib/qt4/lib64 and /usr/lib/qt4/lib<br>
><br>
> There were also symlinks in both directories identifying themselves as<br>
> libQTDBus..so.4 and pointing at both the 4.3.1 libraries.<br>
><br>
> So it seems I have both the 32-bit and 64-bit libraries available but<br>
> perhaps Skype expects the link to be in another directory. Any ideas<br>
> where that might be? If I can stick another symlink elsewhere it might work.<br>
><br>
> Thanks for the advice.<br>
<br>
</div></div>try linking into the same directory the skype binary is in<br>
<br>
BR,<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> K<br>
<br>
<br>
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