[Slackbuilds-users] skype on sw 12.2

[JK Wood]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Greg' Ar Tourter <artourter at gmail.com>wrote:

> The most recent version of skype (2.1.0.x) work fine on both -13 and
> -current with the dynamic package (and on prior version of slack with
> the static package) but only if the binaries are not stripped.
>
> if you comment out the strip line in the slackbuilds,, and rebuild it
> will work fine. Otherwise, as you see it segfaults, no idea why.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Cheers
>
> Greg
>
> On 24 April 2010 12:54, Eric Hameleers <eha at alienbase.nl> wrote:
> > On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, wrodrigues wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 01:03:12PM +0700, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> The download link for skype 2.0.0.72 is broken. The later version of
> >>>> skype is skype_static-2.1.0.81 which compiles and installs on
> Slackware 12.2
> >>>> but gives Segmentation fault error when skype is run.
> >>>
> >>> I think it uses newer QT (4.4.0). That's why it would broke in 12.2
> >>> Try the static version
> >>>
> >>
> >> I tried the static version skype_static-2.1.0.81 which did not work.
> >> Unfortunately I am not able to get the earlier static version
> >> (skype_static-2.0.0.72)
> >>
> >> The slackbuild for skype from slackware 13 after compiling and
> installing
> >> gives the error "skype: error while loading shared libraries:
> >> libQtDBus.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory"
> >> after launching. So I assume that I need to use slackbuilds from 12.2
> only.
> >
> > I still have a skype_static-2.0.0.72 tarball in my repository on
> > http://slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/skype/build/<http://slackware.com/%7Ealien/slackbuilds/skype/build/>
> >
> > Eric
> >
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> > * For minor problems, reboot
> > * For major problems, reinstall
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This, a thousand times this.  I spent hours trying to get the newer one to
run, only to discover that it ran fine straight out of the tarball, but the
packaged version didn't.  I thought I'd found a bug in pkgtools, until I
realized that the md5 difference was thanks to strip.

--JK
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