[Klug-general] Skype on 64 bits

[Rob Snow]

Hi Mike

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.

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.

Hope this helps.

Rob

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Karl Lattimer <karl at qdh.org.uk> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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