I have tried to install Skype on x86_64 (11.0).
The skype-2.0.0.72-suse.i586.rpm installed, but I have no sound.
Skype output:
ALSA lib control.c:874:(snd_ctl_open_conf)
Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so
There is no such lib, but there is /usr/lib64/alsa-lib with that file.
Probably the lib is sought on a wrong place because 586 version
is installed?
Is there Skype for openSuse 11.0 x86_64? I cannot find it.
Thanks,
Josef
That file is provided by the libasound2-32bit package. Install that and try again.
Skype works fine on x86_64 once some 32bit packages are installed. I have it working.
It seems I have the lib installed:
zypper install libasound2-32bit-1.0.16-39.1.x86_64.rpm
‘libasound2-32bit=1.0.16-39.1’ is installed
but the problem persists.
yes, I have
skype-2.0.0.72-suse.i586.rpm
but when I try to install
libasound2-1.0.16.92-3.1.i586.rpm
it wants to download 484 MB and downgrade half the system!
JF
but when I try to install
libasound2-1.0.16.92-3.1.i586.rpm
it wants to download 484 MB and downgrade half the system!
just don’t do that
I have tried to install Skype on x86_64 (11.0).
The skype-2.0.0.72-suse.i586.rpm installed, but I have no sound.
Skype output:
ALSA lib control.c:874:(snd_ctl_open_conf)
Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so
this library is in alsa-plugins-pulse package but weird - i have it installed not and skype workstrue, i have alsa-plugins (only 64-bit)
install these packages (x86-64 & xxx-32bit) and try again.
make sure you have installed other skype related packages
Actually I may have given you wrong advice. The directory /usr/lib/alsa-lib comes from libasound2-32bit, but it seems some files in it come from other packages. In particular /usr/lib64/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so comes from alsa-plugins-pulse, so I would think that the 32 bit version would come from alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit. However my Skype doesn’t seem to mind that I don’t have /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so it looks more like your ALSA setup tries to use pulseaudio, which I think shouldn’t be needed for Skype? More fun stuff for you to explore.
Hello, everyone.
I have a problem with skype, too, and I would be very grateful, if someone helps me.
I downloaded the program from its website. The I ran the konsole and typed the command ‘rpm -i skype-2.0.0.72-suse.i586.rpm’. I’m sure that is the exact name of the program, because I copied it from its properties. But the konsole answered ‘error: open of skype-2.0.0.72-suse.i586.rpm failed: No such file or directory’. Now what?
Thanks,
Lily
Probably because your console session was not in the same directory as where the file was downloaded. Remember you have to be root to do the install, so you would probably be in /root when you typed that command whereas the RPM would probably be on /home/you/Desktop. So try:
rpm -i /home/you/Desktop/skype-blah-blah
Then you will probably find there are some dependencies you have to install first. Make sure you install the 32-bit versions of those dependencies, not the 64-bit versions. I think they will be:
libqt4-x11-32bit
libqt4-32bit
Hi
Generally you should start a new thread with your problem, not tack
onto and existing one
When running the command you need to do two things use sudo and either
be in the same directory as the file was downloaded to, or use the full
path eg
sudo rpm -Uhv /home/<yourusername>/<name_of_the_rpm>
or
cd <to_location_of_file>
sudo rpm -Uhv <name_of_rpm>
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Thanks a lot. Now I see I have to download these things
and try again. The strange thing is that I find them only for Mandriva, but I am with Suse 11.
Whatever, I’ll keep on searching. Thanks again.
Have a nice day/night.
No, don’t go get those dependencies from outside OpenSUSE, that’s asking for trouble. They are all provided by the OpenSUSE packages. Try those two I mentioned. There is another, libqt4-sql-32bit, which I don’t think is needed by Skype but I could be wrong and you could install that if there are still missing libQt libraries.
Okay, I downloaded libqt4-32bit and started it with YaST. Now it tells me that ‘this is not a rpm package…’ :sarcastic:
You should be installing those packages from the repositories (and your install DVD, if you used one, is also a repository) using YaST’s software management screen, rather than downloading and running rpm on each one separately. This also takes care of the dependencies for you.
In general, OpenSUSE repositories should be your primary sources of packages. skype was the exception because it’s not from an OpenSUSE repository.
I don’t have libqt4-dbus-1 of either 64 or 32 bit on my 11.0 system and Skype still works fine.
Skype uses the QT4.4 libraries (libqt4 package), however the standard KDE4 QT4.4 libraries have a bug in them, it’s fixed in the latest libraries that can be found in this repository:
Index of /repositories/KDE:/Qt44/openSUSE_11.0
See also “Problems with Skype and QT 4.4.0”:
Problem with QT 4.4.0 - Skype Community
I installed the version 11.1 and the same problem occurred using different user of root.
Using root the sound is perfectly.
use the cut and paste functions and finally the: openSuSE 10+ section. at the following site:
enjoy