Skype with video on OpenSUSE 11.1 x86_64

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So i finally got Skype working on my OpenSUSE 11.1 64-bits install on my laptop (smolts -> Show Box).

Here is a quick run-through how i got it to work.

First get Skype 2.0.0.72 here:
http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-ubuntu-amd64 left-click and save …or…

wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-ubuntu-amd64

Install the dependencies:

sudo zypper install libqt4-32bit libqt4-x11-32bit

Install Alien:

sudo zypper install alien

Convert the .deb file into .rpm:

alien -r -c skype_ubuntu-2.0.0.72-1_amd64.deb

Install the new converted .rpm package of Skype:

sudo rpm -ivh skype-2.0.0.72-2.x86_64.rpm

Start Skype: Run it from the menu → Applications > Internet > More Programs > Skype

skype

Some screenshots of Skype in OpenSUSE 11.1 x86_64 with E17:
http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/7848/skypeopensuse111x8664hn3.th.png](http://img167.imageshack.us/my.php?image=skypeopensuse111x8664hn3.png)
Audio in and output devices using ALSA

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/9373/skypeopensuse111x8664dbmp2.th.png](http://img214.imageshack.us/my.php?image=skypeopensuse111x8664dbmp2.png)
Skype on the DBUS session bus

http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/6385/skypeopensuse111x8664vilm9.th.png](http://img394.imageshack.us/my.php?image=skypeopensuse111x8664vilm9.png)
Webcam with Skype! Working receive and sending of images with the webcam in my system (08ff:2810 AuthenTec, Inc.):slight_smile:

Not working:
Putting the webcam picture window on “Fullscreen” cause Skype to crash on my machine.

On-going investigation on what’s not working …

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Congratulations!

Just curious, are you able to see yourself in the preview window at the same time? This is what I can’t get working in Skype with any version of SUSE I’ve tried…

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Yes, the preview pictures are shown in the option screen and in the video window during a call (as a picture-in-picture thing).

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Awesome. I’m definitely going to try your method.

Thanks.

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For me it installed OK on my HP Pavillion notebook dv6736nr. Got vídeo but no sound. What sound system did you use?

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Thanks for the tips… got it working now :slight_smile:
But just out of curiosity, why do we need to install 32bit libs since we’re using the 64bit deb file?
regards,
Carlos

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ALSA

I prefer not to use PulseAudio due to latency issue with audio playback. That’s the gamer in me talking; He hates high latency.

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Good question. I asked myself that one too.

But than i saw skype was working and stopped caring to investigate about it. My guess now is that it was most likely to resolve a dependency issue with the .deb.

Tho i’m not running openSuSE 64-bits atm on my laptop. The frustration of the crashing Intel graphics driver when composite is enabled was droving me to killing spree.

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hey dude, great job, nice tutorial, but I get an error while trying to install the .rpm file, here’s what came up in terminal

error: Failed dependencies:
	libQtCore.so.4 is needed by skype-2.0.0.72-2.x86_64
	libQtDBus.so.4 is needed by skype-2.0.0.72-2.x86_64
	libQtGui.so.4 is needed by skype-2.0.0.72-2.x86_64
	libQtNetwork.so.4 is needed by skype-2.0.0.72-2.x86_64

Does it mean it cannot read my network,or ???

Thanks a lot. I need Skype stay in touch with my relatives. Please help.

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Use the command

zypper what-provides filename

to find out which dependencies you’re missing on your system and install them.

I don’t have access to a openSuSE desktop system atm. I’ll post packages name at later time when i’m behind an openSuSE machine.

As for reply on your pm: The bar & desktop widgets you see are E17 svn , builded with easy e17 installer. But i don’t recommend beginner openSuSE users, such as yourself, to endeavor into building svn software from source. Yes, the ‘easy’ means “easier”. Not necessary really easy from a beginner users point of view.

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hah … thanks.

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Download (curl) error for ‘http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Java:/packages/openSUSE_11.1/repodata/repomd.xml’:
Error code: Connection failed
Error message: couldn’t connect to host

Is the server down? I tried Yast>Software Repos but got the same output. Any guess?

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On my opensuse 11 64b desktop with logtech 9000 cam with usb mike[build in] works fine with skype rpm [downloaded from skype]. Why compile?

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I have missing dependencies, and I’m currently unable to install them.

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When I tried to install dependencies → 

zypper what-provides skype-2.0.0.72-2.x86_64.rpm
Building repository 'openSUSE-11.1-Update' cache [done]
Error building the cache:
'repo2solv.sh' '-o' '/var/cache/zypp/solv/repo-update/solv' '/var/cache/zypp/raw/repo-update'
error, the repository specifies extra information about package with checksum 'b742c488e35a93824474c8ae763f17d0566e8d95', which does not exist in the repository.

Warning: Disabling repository 'openSUSE-11.1-Update' because of the above error.
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
No providers of 'skype-2.0.0.72-2.x86_64.rpm' found.
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works very neat, thanks so much for this post!

i installed twice, the first time as you suggested, and it seemed to work fine, but then i reinstalled using sudo for the alien command (to avoid a denied access to .gfvs) and then installed libasound2-32bit, just to avoid some annoying errors verbosed in the terminal. as i said, the first time worked, and these two additional steps might not make any difference, although it works flawlessly now.

thanks again,

–edit: SHAME ON THE SKYPE TEAM.

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brilliant work…
it’s solutions and problem solving of this nature that makes this such a great forum… !
works like a charm !
8 )
cheerz
n

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Why all the extra work? The provided suse rpm and the static version from the skype website work perfectly!

You have to install 1 other package through yast or zypper (can’t remember which one right now), but that’s it.

I’ve been using those for years, and my webcam works perfectly :sarcastic:.

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but I get an error every time I try to install the rpm with YaST…

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Is it really a 64 bit version?
According to Skype, they don’t have 64 bit versions for Linux yet.

I was not able to install without installing 32 bit Qt libs.