Skype will not start....

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I’ve installed the latest version of Skype from skype.com however when I try to open it, it appears to load for about 15 seconds and then vanishes.

I really need Skype to work so I would appreciate any help.

Thanks
Zach

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Start from a terminal and see what messages it emits.

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Yeah - it came back with a few errors, missing libraries, so I downloaded them and now it works :slight_smile:

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have a look here: http://en.opensuse.org/Skype

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palladium

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I think I have installed everything that needs to be installed, but when I try to start Skype from the KDE menu, it just hangs for about 15 sec, and then quits. When I try to start it from the terminal, I get the follow error message:

skype: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libQtDBus.so.4: file too short

Any way I can fix this?

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Are you using openSUSE 32bit or 64bit?
What is the output of:

ll /usr/lib/libQtDBus.so*
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I’m using OpenSUSE 11.2 64-bit.

steve@linux-zwzm:~> ll /usr/lib/libQtDBus.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2010-02-12 22:07 /usr/lib/libQtDBus.so.4 -> libQtDBus.so.4.5.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2010-02-12 22:07 /usr/lib/libQtDBus.so.4.5 -> libQtDBus.so.4.5.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2009-10-24 04:25 /usr/lib/libQtDBus.so.4.5.3

Thanks for the help.

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Looks like your libQtDBus.so.4.5.3 file is corrupted or not installed properly. It is showing zero length. Remove that package and reinstall the following package: libqt4-32bit

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That was it.

Actually, it turned out that several of the 32-bit libraries were not properly installed, but once I fixed them, everything works.

Thanks.

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Good to hear that.