Skype and shared libraries libasound.so.2

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#1

Hello,

I have an old Creative Labs Sound Blaster PCI128 and after the new installation of the 11.1 x86_64 version the sound was creepy. So I downloaded and re-compiled alsa-driver, libs, utils, oss etc for Creative AudioPCI ES1371+ .
Well, the sound card works just fine. BUT, Skype refuses to run giving the following error message:

skype: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

Actually, the both modules libasound.so.2 do present in the /usr/lib and /usr/lib64.

However,

  1. “rpm -aq | grep alsa-lib” gives empty string.

  2. “ldd /usr/bin/skype | grep not” gives
    libasound.so.2 => not found

  3. “ldd /usr/bin/skype” gives

linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libasound.so.2 => not found
libXv.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXv.so.1 (0xf7f3c000)
libXss.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXss.so.1 (0xf7f38000)
libQtDBus.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtDBus.so.4 (0xf7ecf000)
libdbus-1.so.3 => /lib/libdbus-1.so.3 (0xf7e8c000)
libQtXml.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtXml.so.4 (0xf7e48000)
libQtGui.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 (0xf755e000)
etc…

Can someone give me a clue how to repair skype ?

#2

Do you have the 32bit version of alsa? If not install it. skype is 32bit, not 64bit.