[Klug-general] Skype on 64 bits

[Rob Snow]

Hi Mike

Use your favorite package management tool, thats urpmi in mandrake isn't it?
to add the following rpms.
libqt4-32bit
libqt4-qt3support-32bit
libqt4-sql-32bit
libqt4-x11-32bit

Some may already be there, the two i was missing were libqt4-32bit and
libqt4-x11-32bit. These rpms should provide the shared objects (.so files)
that Skype reports as missing. By using the inbuilt package manager it
"should" sort out where they need to be etc.....

Good Luck

Rob


On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Mike Rentell <michael.rentell at ntlworld.com>
wrote:

> 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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