[Klug-general] Skype on 64 bits

[Karl Lattimer]

On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 11:18 +0100, Mike Rentell wrote:
> 
> 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.

try linking into the same directory the skype binary is in

BR,
 K