Hello there!
I was running skype 4.1.0.20 on my 64-bit laptop for weeks (installed in /opt, from an official skype binary archive, plus few 32-bit stuff to get it working), when suddenly it stopped working, no way to start it:
$ skype Fatal: QWidget: Must construct a QApplication before a QPaintDevice Aborted
A quick search on the Internet brought some possible solution, basically configuring prelink to skip skype binary, uninstall skype, reinstall it. I was doubtful about uninstall/reinstall step since I didn't install it using a RPM but from a binary archive. Anyway I did it, restarted even the computer. No way to start skype.
For now I'm stuck w/ an former staticQT 4.0.0.8 version of skype, which has no support for MSN accounts. Please note that I'm not using skype+msn because I want, but because I need to (@work).
Did anybody ever solve this issue or has a clue about how to do it?
Regards,
On Wednesday 30 January 2013, wwp subscript@free.fr wrote:
I was running skype 4.1.0.20 on my 64-bit laptop for weeks (installed in /opt, from an official skype binary archive, plus few 32-bit stuff to get it working), when suddenly it stopped working, no way to start it:
How did you get Skype 4.1 to work on CentOS 6 x64_64?
Yves
Hello Yves,
On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:31:42 -0500 Yves Bellefeuille yan@storm.ca wrote:
On Wednesday 30 January 2013, wwp subscript@free.fr wrote:
I was running skype 4.1.0.20 on my 64-bit laptop for weeks (installed in /opt, from an official skype binary archive, plus few 32-bit stuff to get it working), when suddenly it stopped working, no way to start it:
How did you get Skype 4.1 to work on CentOS 6 x64_64?
This point has already been answered on this mailing list (and elsewhere). A bit of search in the archives and elsewhere would quickly bring you this: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Skype
Because Skype is 32-bit, the idea is to install it from the official binary archive, and use yum to install few 32-bit libraries (yes, this means that some libraries will be in 32-bit and 64-bit on your system, not a problem). Sound and video work like a charm, skype+msn support.
Regards,
On Friday 01 February 2013, wwp subscript@free.fr wrote:
This point has already been answered on this mailing list (and elsewhere). A bit of search in the archives and elsewhere would quickly bring you this: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Skype
I'm very familiar with that document. :-) And many users, including myself, couldn't get Skype 4.1 to work on CentOS 64 bits using those instructions.
If Skype 4.1 did work on your 64-bit system, I'm very interested in knowing the details; you can contact me directly if you wish.
(Skype 4.0 does work; in your initial post, you said that 4.1.0.20 used to work on your system, but no longer does.)
Yves
Hello Yves,
On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 08:08:20 -0500 Yves Bellefeuille yan@storm.ca wrote:
On Friday 01 February 2013, wwp subscript@free.fr wrote:
This point has already been answered on this mailing list (and elsewhere). A bit of search in the archives and elsewhere would quickly bring you this: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Skype
I'm very familiar with that document. :-) And many users, including myself, couldn't get Skype 4.1 to work on CentOS 64 bits using those instructions.
If Skype 4.1 did work on your 64-bit system, I'm very interested in knowing the details; you can contact me directly if you wish.
(Skype 4.0 does work; in your initial post, you said that 4.1.0.20 used to work on your system, but no longer does.)
Yep, well I think I also followed a blog post somewhere on the internet, which was more detailed. Anyway nothing was different from using ldd to know what 32-bit deps the skype binary has and install the appropriate lib. I didn't do any magic or setup in the system config files. That simply worked by installing 32-bit stuff.
Regards,
Hello Yves,
On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 08:08:20 -0500 Yves Bellefeuille yan@storm.ca wrote:
On Friday 01 February 2013, wwp subscript@free.fr wrote:
This point has already been answered on this mailing list (and elsewhere). A bit of search in the archives and elsewhere would quickly bring you this: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Skype
I'm very familiar with that document. :-) And many users, including myself, couldn't get Skype 4.1 to work on CentOS 64 bits using those instructions.
If Skype 4.1 did work on your 64-bit system, I'm very interested in knowing the details; you can contact me directly if you wish.
(Skype 4.0 does work; in your initial post, you said that 4.1.0.20 used to work on your system, but no longer does.)
Got skype 4.1 to work again here, just unpacked the binary archive over the existing files, don't know what went broken or how..
FYI, I've made a list of the packages showing from a `ldd skype`, this may indicate what you need to install, at least (here: CentOS6.3 up-to-date, epel repo enabled):
alsa-lib-1.0.22-3.el6.i686 dbus-libs-1.2.24-7.el6_3.i686 expat-2.0.1-11.el6_2.i686 flac-1.2.1-6.1.el6.i686 fontconfig-2.8.0-3.el6.i686 freetype-2.3.11-14.el6_3.1.i686 glib2-2.22.5-7.el6.i686 glibc-2.12-1.80.el6_3.7.i686 keyutils-libs-1.4-4.el6.i686 krb5-libs-1.9-33.el6_3.3.i686 libasyncns-0.8-1.1.el6.i686 libcom_err-1.41.12-12.el6.i686 libgcc-4.4.6-4.el6.i686 libICE-1.0.6-1.el6.i686 libogg-1.1.4-2.1.el6.i686 libpng-1.2.49-1.el6_2.i686 libselinux-2.0.94-5.3.el6.i686 libSM-1.1.0-7.1.el6.i686 libsndfile-1.0.20-5.el6.i686 libstdc++-4.4.6-4.el6.i686 libuuid-2.17.2-12.7.el6_3.i686 libvorbis-1.2.3-4.el6_2.1.i686 libX11-1.3-2.el6.i686 libXau-1.0.5-1.el6.i686 libxcb-1.5-1.el6.i686 libXcursor-1.1.10-2.el6.i686 libXext-1.1-3.el6.i686 libXfixes-4.0.4-1.el6.i686 libXi-1.3-3.el6.i686 libXinerama-1.1-1.el6.i686 libXrandr-1.3.0-4.el6.i686 libXrender-0.9.5-1.el6.i686 libXScrnSaver-1.2.0-1.el6.i686 libXtst-1.0.99.2-3.el6.i686 libXv-1.0.5-1.el6.i686 openssl-1.0.0-25.el6_3.1.i686 pulseaudio-libs-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686 pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686 sqlite-3.6.20-1.el6.i686 tcp_wrappers-libs-7.6-57.el6.i686 zlib-1.2.3-27.el6.i686
Of course there may have indirect dependencies, but yum would tell you that in time.
Important: I also have a full Qt 4.7 32-bit in /usr/lib/qt47, on which my installed skype version depends on: libphonon.so.4 libQtCore.so.4 libQtDBus.so.4 libQtGui.so.4 libQtNetwork.so.4 libQtWebKit.so.4 libQtXml.so.4
I was not sure if I got this specific Qt version installed for GuitarPro6 (commercial) or skype, but my LD_LIBRARY_PATH points to that dir and it can't using the Qt 4.6 or 4.8 versions installed locally (install from one of those repositories: base, epel, rpmforge, puias, atrpms).
For this Qt47, I downloaded the following RPMs: phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.7.2-1_18.el6.i686.rpm qt47-4.7.2-1_18.el6.i686.rpm qt47-config-4.7.2-1_18.el6.i686.rpm qt47-webkit-4.7.2-1_18.el6.i686.rpm qt47-x11-4.7.2-1_18.el6.i686.rpm
And installed *manually* their contents to /usr/lib/qt47.
This also requires tweaking a bit in /usr/lib/qt47/bin and /usr/bin (it's safe towards system Qt versions, it's just about fixing the missing q* qt47 apps and making correct symlinks isolated in /usr/lib/qt47/bin): See my /usr/lib/qt47/bin contents: qdbus -> ../../../bin/qdbus-qt47 qdbusviewer -> ../../../bin/qdbusviewer-qt47 qmlviewer -> ../../../bin/qmlviewer-qt47 qtconfig -> ../../../bin/qtconfig-qt47 qtconfig-qt47 -> ../../../bin/qtconfig-qt47
Let me know if you succeed or still miss something!
Regards,
Hello,
On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 10:23:42 +0100 wwp subscript@free.fr wrote:
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For this Qt47, I downloaded the following RPMs: phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.7.2-1_18.el6.i686.rpm qt47-4.7.2-1_18.el6.i686.rpm qt47-config-4.7.2-1_18.el6.i686.rpm qt47-webkit-4.7.2-1_18.el6.i686.rpm qt47-x11-4.7.2-1_18.el6.i686.rpm
And installed *manually* their contents to /usr/lib/qt47.
This also requires tweaking a bit in /usr/lib/qt47/bin and /usr/bin (it's safe towards system Qt versions, it's just about fixing the missing q* qt47 apps and making correct symlinks isolated in /usr/lib/qt47/bin): See my /usr/lib/qt47/bin contents: qdbus -> ../../../bin/qdbus-qt47 qdbusviewer -> ../../../bin/qdbusviewer-qt47 qmlviewer -> ../../../bin/qmlviewer-qt47 qtconfig -> ../../../bin/qtconfig-qt47 qtconfig-qt47 -> ../../../bin/qtconfig-qt47
Let me know if you succeed or still miss something!
I missed to say where I got the qt47-el6 RPMs from: http://pkgs.org/search/?keyword=qt47
Regards,
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Yves Bellefeuille