Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 02:02:42 +0200 From: Hasse <hasse@swedehost.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Adam Smith <adam@internode.com.au> Subject: Re: Anybody know how to run Skype for Linux on FreeBSD Message-ID: <200407070202.42043.hasse@swedehost.com> In-Reply-To: <20040706231952.GA852@internode.com.au> References: <200407070116.33905.hasse@swedehost.com> <20040706231952.GA852@internode.com.au>
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On Wednesday 07 July 2004 01.19, Adam Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:16:33AM +0200, Hasse said: > > Hi everybody. > > Anybody know how to run Skype for Linux ? > > On my desktop, I'm running 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 and I'm trying to get Skype > > for Linux to run. > > Description of the program : http://www.skype.com/ > > Download Linux version : http://www.skype.com/download_linux.html > > > > I have Linux bin installed, but don't know how run any lin-apps. :-) > > Why don't you install it from the FreeBSD ports instead? > > cd /usr/ports/net/skype > make > make install > > > Cheers, > > Adam > > > What I've done this far, is to untar the skype_ver-0_90_0_6.tar.bz2 > > in /usr/local/etc, for the simplicity, renamed it to skype and tried to > > run it with the following command : sh / usr/local/etc/skype/skype and it > > gives me the following message : > > /usr/local/etc/skype/skype: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected > > > > When I try just / usr/local/etc/skype/skype I get : > > /usr/local/etc/skype/skype: error while loading shared libraries: > > libqt-mt.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > > > Then I try : locate libqt-mt.so.3 , and I get : > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libqt-mt.so.3.3 > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libqt-mt.so.3.3.2 > > /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libqt-mt.so.3.3.1 > > > > And I'm trying all this logged in as root. > > > > I know this is a long and stupid post, but ........ > > > > TIA > > Hasse. > > Thx Adam, I'll certainly will do that. Shame on ME , and my faith in the FreeBSD porters. Offcourse I should have checked the ports first. Didn't even imagine it was allready ported. Found out about the Lin-version today. ( yesterday ) Thx again for bringing this to my attension. Best Regards Hasse.
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