Skype not working open suse 11.2

[wilscco]

I get this error
skype: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZNK17QVariantAnimation10metaObjectEv

Tks. Wilscco

[stamostolias]

I get this error
skype: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZNK17QVariantAnimation10metaObjectEv

Tks. Wilscco

Your system is 32bit or 64bit?

[hcvv]

Please be more talkative and give more information. Did it work earlier or is this immediatly after installation? How did you install? And yes, stamostolias question allso needs an answer.

[Joakim_W]

From what repository did you install skype from? There is the official build from skypes homepage, but you also have the skype from wrapper repo that I use and it's been working all the time. I have 32 bit version of openSUSE 11.3, should work for 11.2 as well.

[stamostolias]

I install skype from here Download the latest version of Skype for Linux.
1)Skype is not repository, it is rpm package which you must install it through yast.
2)Because you have 32bit system skype is written for 32bit operating systems. It can also run in 64bit systems
3)

skype: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZNK17QVariantAnimation10metaObjectEv

You try in terminal to run and the output is that text?

4)tell us the installation process.

[please_try_again]

If you are in a 64-bit system, do that:

zypper in libqt4-x11-32bit libsigc++2-32bit libpng12-0-32bit

[wilscco]

Please be more talkative and give more information. Did it work earlier or is this immediatly after installation? How did you install? And yes, stamostolias question allso needs an answer.

Tks. Henk van Velden for replying.
I'm using an 65 watts AMD Athlon X2 64, 4Gb ram, Nvidia G8600 512M, Creative SB Live 5.1. I've just intalled Open Suse 11.2 X86-64, with both, KDE and Gnome UIs, language spanish. Thou I followed the procedure recomended at SDB:Skype - openSUSE. Thus: 1.2 Preparation with (su -c 'zypper install libqt4-32bit libqt4-dbus-1-32bit libqt4-x11-32bit libsigc++2-32bit xorg-x11-libXv-32bit' ). Then 1.3 Yast installed downloaded Skype as indicated (Download Skype for Linux). both speps successful, then bash runned skype which showed the error I posted, since it first just failed to start from the GUI

[DenverD]

On 01/27/2011 03:36 PM, wilscco wrote:
> since it first just failed to start from the GUI

i'm just guessing so you might want to wait for some other opinions,
but i would open YaST, go Software > Software Management and put
libQtGui.so.4 in the search block, then click on "File list" and then
click on Search..

you should get a list of all the occurrences of that file on your
machine (seems i have two, one is for google earth)..

first i would right click and mark the one NOT associated with
google-earth for Update, then click Accept..

and try skype again, in bash...

if it is still broken i GUESS (somehow) Skype is finding the google
associated lib instead of the one in /usr/lib/ a problem i wouldn't
have a clue on solving....

so, WAIT for competent advice.

--
DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5
"release 1", Thunderbird3.0.11,]
"It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not." DD 23 Jan 11

[please_try_again]

It sounds like the library has been updated and Skype expects another version.

readlink /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4
ldd -v /usr/bin/skype

[stamostolias]

If you are in a 64-bit system, do that:

zypper in libqt4-x11-32bit libsigc++2-32bit libpng12-0-32bit

As said "please_try_again" download these libraries with zypper.