Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 18:19:57 +0300 From: Adi Pircalabu <apircalabu@bitdefender.com> To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, Stephen Bartlett <stephen@bartlettsoftware.biz>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Skype Message-ID: <20060517181957.7ff28f20@apircalabu.dsd.ro> In-Reply-To: <20060517170422.1325790e@it.buh.tecnik93.com> References: <446A680C.2060908@greenmeadow.ca> <20060517124624.533537e0@localhost> <446A9D70.5070405@greenmeadow.ca> <20060517140933.4def3cbb@localhost> <20060517103656.3f267326@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <20060517084742.GA957@tux.localdomain.local> <20060517120509.54d98132@apircalabu.dsd.ro> <20060517170422.1325790e@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
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On Wed, 17 May 2006 17:04:22 +0300 Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > On Wed, 17 May 2006 12:05:09 +0300 > Adi Pircalabu <apircalabu@bitdefender.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 May 2006 22:47:42 -1000 Stephen Bartlett wrote: > > > > > > linux_enable="YES" > > > > should be enough. > > > > > > FWIW, I had had Skype running fine on 6.0-RELEASE -- then it > > > stopped working for some unknown reason. Symptoms were that the > > > Skype process would start, fire up some child processes, but > > > never bring up any windows. > > > > > > I upgraded to 6.1-RELEASE, did a portupgrade, and still had the > > > same problem with Skype. After reading that other people still > > > were able to run Skype, I decided to start all over with it: > > > deinstalled net/skype, deinstalled the > > > emulators/linux_base-suse-9.3 that I'd been using, and 'rm > > > -rf /compat/linux/*'. Then, I just: > > > > > > cd /usr/ports/net/skype > > > make install > > > (that ended up installing linux_base-8) > > > > Yep, but you've probably been left with outdated libraries. Try to > > use portupgrade or portmanager, they both do a very good job in > > updating dependencies. > > > > > > > > Although the build/install went fine, Skype wouldn't start due to > > > missing libraries. So I copied them over from a Linux partition > > > (happens to be Gentoo): libGL.so.1 libXmu.so.6 > > > libXrandr.so.2 > > > libXcursor.so.1 > > > libXft.so.2 > > > libSM.so.6 > > > libICE.so.6 > > > libXext.so.6 > > > libX11.so.6 > > > libXxf86vm.so.1 > > > libXt.so.6 > > > libXrender.so.1 > > > libexpat.so.0 > > Interesting enough, while I have this files on my system, pkg_info -O > on them doesn't return anything. Adi, could you please check on your > system ? > Same here, no result for pkg_info -O. Though, they are part of linux-XFree86-libs -- Adi Pircalabu (PGP Key ID 0x04329F5E) -- This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender. For more information please visit http://www.bitdefender.com/
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