skype (+plus most other things) not working properly

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S10e lenovo netbook

opensuse 11.4

tried restricted formats and got a repository authentication failure

installed skype apparently successfuly but it doesn’t actually run, just disappears from the taskbar

anyone else?

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Run skype from the command line. report errors. If you run 64bit OS you may need to install a couple of 32bit libraries.

You need to say more about authentication failure. You may simply have a bad URL.

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Try running Skype from a Konsole screen by typing “skype” and the “enter” key. It should report what the problem might be.

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I’m a newbie to OpenSUSE and was having the same problem last night. I saw a post that got it done. Try opening the terminal and entering this

zypper install libpng12-0-32bit libqt4-32bit libqt4-dbus-1-32bit libqt4-x11-32bit libsigc++2-32bit xorg-x11-libXv-32bit
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cheers all;

32bit 11.4

:~> skype
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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This must be installed Go to yast Software Management in search bar enter libpng12 check the box saying provides. THe do a search install the sound package.

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On 64-bit adding the following with Yast will do it:
libpng12-0-32bit
libqt4-32bit
libqt4-x11-32bit
xorg-x11-libXv-32bit

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cheers, that solved it. god knows why a missing graphics library can scupper skype tho…

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Because it needs the graphics functions. PNG is an open format for storing images; many icons come in this format. Skype does more than just phone and video calls these days, you can chat, send files, etc.

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awesome, but why the hell isn’t opensuse 11.4 packaged with this essential library?

p.s. amarok is doing the exact same thing as skype; dancing sand-time followed by disappearance from task-bar

any clues as to which vital library it might be this time?

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It is, where do you think it got installed from? :stuck_out_tongue:

If it didn’t get installed as a dependency, it’s Skype’s packaging mistake. They are supposed to declare dependencies in the package.

Same drill: start amarok from a command line window and watch the error messages.

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says it’s already running…?

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followed by; "communication problem with amarok
error message was: “org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply”