[Klug-general] Skype on 64 bits

[Mike Rentell]

Karl Lattimer wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 10:41 +0100, Mike Rentell wrote:
>> Karl Lattimer wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 10:22 +0100, Mike Rentell wrote:
>>>> Good morning all,
>>>> Has anyone managed to get Skype working on a 64 bit machine with a 
>>>> 64-bit Linux? If I use the 32-bit version of the OS it works fine but 
>>>> simply refuses to function on the 64-bit version. The offering from 
>>>> Skype seems to be only 32-bit.
>>>> Any ideas?
>>> Works fine for me on Fedora 9 x86_64 edition
>>>
>>> BR,
>>>  K
>>>
>>>
>> Hmm - interesting. I wonder if it is a library placement thing. I've got 
>> around another problem with a different app by putting symlinks into the 
>> /usr/lib for particular libraries which are only in /usr/lib64
> 
> Give it a try. Fedora ships a load of 32->64 bit symlinks and compat
> libs so it might just be something missing on your distro.
> 
> BR,
>  K
> 
> 
Instead of just clicking on the Skype icon, I popped up a console and 
typed 'skype'. The failure message was:

error while loading shared libraries: libQTDBus.so.4: cannot open shared 
object file. No such file or directory


So I searched for that library and found libQTDBus.so.4.3.1 in both 
/usr/lib/qt4/lib64 and /usr/lib/qt4/lib

There were also symlinks in both directories identifying themselves as 
libQTDBus..so.4 and pointing at both the 4.3.1 libraries.

So it seems I have both the 32-bit and 64-bit libraries available but 
perhaps Skype expects the link to be in another directory. Any ideas 
where that might be? If I can stick another symlink elsewhere it might work.

Thanks for the advice.

MikeR