From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 7 00:02:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF7A16A4CF for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 00:02:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from av9-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (av9-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 364CC43D1F for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 00:02:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hasse@swedehost.com) Received: by av9-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 66A5937EBB; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 02:02:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.182]) by av9-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57A5137E43; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 02:02:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from odin.swedehost.com (h171n2fls33o804.telia.com [217.209.211.171]) by smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4599037E42; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 02:02:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from thor.swedehost.com (thor.swedehost.com [192.168.0.10]) by odin.swedehost.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6702nJx047141; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 02:02:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from hasse@swedehost.com) From: Hasse Organization: The Valhalla Project To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 02:02:42 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200407070116.33905.hasse@swedehost.com> <20040706231952.GA852@internode.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040706231952.GA852@internode.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407070202.42043.hasse@swedehost.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.43 cc: Adam Smith Subject: Re: Anybody know how to run Skype for Linux on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 00:02:42 -0000 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.