Having problems downloading Skype.

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#1

Hi!
I’m new to linux and I’m having some trouble downloading Skype. I installed that three libraries (qt4-x11-32bit) but I still get this message:

There was a (possibly temporary) problem connecting to a software source. Please check the detailed error for further details.
Specified path ‘/var/tmp/TmpDir.Vl7uR3’ is not allowed as media source: dir:///var/tmp/TmpDir.Vl7uR3

I don’t understand what this is telling me or how I go about fixing this problem. I tried looking through the stickies but didn’t find any that helped me figure this problem out!

Thanks for your help!!

#2

If you are on a 64bit system, you need to install qt4-x11-32bit an libsigc++2-32bit first.
Once you have them

#3

Alright, after I did what you said, I get this error:

can’t create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/_db.000 (Permission denied)

Thanks again for your help!

#4

You have another app that is also trying to install. Maybe Yast open or possibly the updater testing to see if updates. You can have only one program trying to install at a time.

#5

Ok, so I made sure I didn’t have anything open except for the terminal…and this is the error I received this time:

error: can’t create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000 (No such file or directory)

#6

You need to execute this command with root permissions:


sudo rpm -ihv skype-2.1.0.81-suse.i586.rpm

.

#7

So…I executed with room permission and it seemed to all go fine…until I actually tried to use Skype and it won’t even open, or start (aka I click on the Skype icon and nothing happens)…

Again, thanks everyone for the help!

#8

I assume that this means: the installation was successfull.
In this case if Skype still won’t start open the terminal and start from there:


skype

and paste here the output.

#9

kathleen@linux-hhf1:~> skype
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

#10 

sudo zypper in xorg-x11-libXv
#11

now this is what i get:

kathleen@linux-hhf1:~> sudo zypper in xorg-x11-libXv
root’s password:
skypeLoading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
‘xorg-x11-libXv’ is already installed.
Resolving package dependencies…

Nothing to do.
kathleen@linux-hhf1:~> skype
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
kathleen@linux-hhf1:~>

#12

How about ‘sudo zypper in xorg-x11-libXv**-32bit**’?

#13

Thank you so much! I thought I had these libraries downloaded…but I guess not! I really appreciated the help!

#14

Skype is 32 bits so you need the 32 bit version of the 64bit libraries.

#15

I keep getting this error message when trying to open Skype:

/usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZNK17QVar

Using 11.2, and all of the packages mentioned have been loaded already. Any ideas what I need to do to get Skype running?

Thank you for your help.

#16

The log I posted was not complete. It should be:

/usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZNK17QVariantAnimation10metaObjectEv

Sorry for the missing information in the previous post.

#17

You have something out of whack.

post

zypper lr -d

I installed from the DVD and skype simply installed for me worked right off. This last errors is way out.

#18

As requested:

linux-4stg:/home/michael # zypper lr -d

| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service

—±-------------------------------------------------------------------------------±-------------------------------------------------------------------------------±--------±--------±---------±---------±--------------------------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | Index_of_/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse | Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse |
2 | PK_TMP_DIR | PK_TMP_DIR | Yes | Yes | 99 | plaindir | dir:///var/tmp/TmpDir.hrky9Z |
3 | home:broumbroum23 | home:broumbroum23 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/home:/broumbroum23/openSUSE_11.2_oss |
4 | home:j-engel | home:j-engel | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/home:/j-engel/openSUSE_Factory |
5 | Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse | Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /distribution/11.2/repo/oss/suse |
6 | Index of /repositories/GNOME:/Contrib/openSUSE_11.2 | Index of /repositories/GNOME:/Contrib/openSUSE_11.2 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/GNOME:/Contrib/openSUSE_11.2 |
7 | Index of /repositories/home:/broumbroum23/openSUSE_11.2_oss | Index of /repositories/home:/broumbroum23/openSUSE_11.2_oss | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/home:/broumbroum23/openSUSE_11.2_oss |
8 | Index of /repositories/home:/enzokiel/openSUSE_11.2_Update | Index of /repositories/home:/enzokiel/openSUSE_11.2_Update | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/home:/enzokiel/openSUSE_11.2_Update |
9 | Index of /repositories/home:/saigkill/openSUSE_11.2 | Index of /repositories/home:/saigkill/openSUSE_11.2 | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/home:/saigkill/openSUSE_11.2 |
10 | openSUSE 11.2-0 | openSUSE 11.2-0 | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | cd:/// |
11 | openSUSE:Factory:Contrib | openSUSE:Factory:Contrib | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /repositories/openSUSE:/Factory:/Contrib/standard |
12 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.2-Source | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /source/distribution/11.2/repo/oss |
13 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.2-Update | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.2 |

Again, thank you for your help.

#19

Seems like you are still missing two other packages:

su -

zypper install libqt4-32bit libqt4-x11-32bit
#20

trombonistcomposer, this list of repositories is a catastrophe - try to stay away from ‘home:’-repositories until you know the content, do not mix Factory with regular sources until you actually want to test, make sure there are no double-entries. All this makes no sense at all…