[Klug-general] Skype on 64 bits

[Mike Rentell]

Hello Rob,

Thanks for that advice - it would probably help a lot if you could just 
check exactly what you did. I'm right at the edge of my competence here. 
I can move libraries in 'root' and make symlinks. I also have an older 
32-bit machine running an older version of Mandriva so I probably have 
the right libraries available for copying across.

I just need to be advised into exactly which directory they should go.

It would help, thanks a lot.

Mike R
in Folkestone

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