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.
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 works true, i have alsa-plugins (only 64-bit)
install these packages (x86-64 & xxx-32bit) and try again.
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.
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?
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:
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.
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.