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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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