Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 17:04:22 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> To: Adi Pircalabu <apircalabu@bitdefender.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Skype Message-ID: <20060517170422.1325790e@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <20060517120509.54d98132@apircalabu.dsd.ro> 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>
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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 Yep, but you've probably been left with outdated libraries.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 ? > Mine works ok, 6.1-STABLE as of yesterday. I think your system misses > some updated linux-\* ports: > > pkg_glob -R skype > linux_dri-4.4.0 > linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_4 > linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_7 > linux_base-8-8.0_14 > linux-expat-1.95.7_1 > skype-1.2.0.18 > Do you have latest versions of the above installed? # pkg_info -Rr skype-1.2.0.18 Information for skype-1.2.0.18: Depends on: Dependency: linux_base-8-8.0_14 Dependency: linux-expat-1.95.7_1 Dependency: linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_4 Dependency: linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_7 Dependency: linux_dri-4.4.0 -- IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" Uncontrolled power will turn even saints into savages. And we can all be counted on to live down to our lowest impulses. -- Parmen, "Plato's Stepchildren", stardate 5784.3
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