--- Andrew Allen andy.allen@virgin.net wrote:

On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 17:56 -0700, Steven Vishoot wrote:

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--- Andrew Allen andy.allen@virgin.net wrote:

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I'm trying to install Skype on a CentOS 4.4

system

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and I've followed the instructions on the Skype website at

http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/repositories.html

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but when I run yum install skype it fails with a whole string of error messages, ending with Error: failure: RPMS/libsigc++20-2.0.17-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm from rpmforge: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

Has anybody managed to install skype

successfully -

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if so, how please?

Thanks, Andy

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You can try yum clean all and retry yum install.

Just

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a thought.

Steven

Get your Art Supplies @ www.littleartstore.com

Thanks Steven, After I did yum clean all, yum install skype got a lot further and looked as if it was going to work! But then it failed on

Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: libQtCore.so.4 is needed by package skype Error: Missing Dependency: qt4-x11 >= 4.2 is needed by package skype Error: Missing Dependency: libQtGui.so.4 is needed by package skype Error: Missing Dependency: libQtDBus.so.4 is needed by package skype Error: Missing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.4) is needed by package skype Error: Missing Dependency: libQtNetwork.so.4 is needed by package skype Error: Missing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by package skype

So how do I resolve this missing dependency problem using yum please?

Andy

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it looks like you need qt4.2 or higher, but i do not know how that is going to affect the rest of your system if you install that package.

Steven

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Andrew Allen wrote:

On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 17:56 -0700, Steven Vishoot wrote:

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--- Andrew Allen andy.allen@virgin.net wrote:

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I'm trying to install Skype on a CentOS 4.4 system and I've followed the instructions on the Skype website at

http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/repositories.html

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but when I run yum install skype it fails with a whole string of error messages, ending with Error: failure: RPMS/libsigc++20-2.0.17-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm from rpmforge: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

Has anybody managed to install skype successfully - if so, how please?

Thanks, Andy

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CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

You can try yum clean all and retry yum install. Just a thought.

Steven

Get your Art Supplies @ www.littleartstore.com

Thanks Steven, After I did yum clean all, yum install skype got a lot further and looked as if it was going to work! But then it failed on

Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: libQtCore.so.4 is needed by package skype Error: Missing Dependency: qt4-x11 >= 4.2 is needed by package skype Error: Missing Dependency: libQtGui.so.4 is needed by package skype Error: Missing Dependency: libQtDBus.so.4 is needed by package skype Error: Missing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.4) is needed by package skype Error: Missing Dependency: libQtNetwork.so.4 is needed by package skype Error: Missing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by package skype

So how do I resolve this missing dependency problem using yum please?

While I do not normally recommend using statically compiled binaries or installing programs that are not RPMS, in this case there is no real choice, other than breaking your system by upgrading qt ... which I would never recommend.

I can not make a "Redistributable" RPM, as Skype is not GPL ... so please don't ask :D

But, what you can do is download the Linux "Static" version:

http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-static

You can put it in any directory initially (you will want to save it, I personally put all non-RPM installed software in a directory under /root/ so that I know what is installed ... Then you need to untar the file like this (you need to be root to do this):

==================================== COMMANDS ==================================== tar -xvjf skype_static-<version>.tar.bz2

cd skype_static-<version>

mkdir /usr/share/skype

cp -a * /usr/share/skype/

cd /usr/share/skype/

mv skype /usr/bin/

mv skype.conf /etc/dbus-1/system.d/

chown <your-username>.<your-group> skype.desktop

mv skype.desktop ~<your-username>/Desktop

==================================== END COMMANDS ====================================

You should now see skype on your desktop, and you can right click the launcher and change the icon (pictures in /usr/share/skype/icons) now.

Thanks, Johnny Hughes

Andrew Allen wrote:

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While I do not normally recommend using statically compiled binaries or installing programs that are not RPMS, in this case there is no real choice, other than breaking your system by upgrading qt ... which I would never recommend.

I can not make a "Redistributable" RPM, as Skype is not GPL ... so please don't ask :D

But, what you can do is download the Linux "Static" version:

http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-static

You can put it in any directory initially (you will want to save it, I personally put all non-RPM installed software in a directory under /root/ so that I know what is installed ... Then you need to untar the file like this (you need to be root to do this):

==================================== COMMANDS ==================================== tar -xvjf skype_static-<version>.tar.bz2

cd skype_static-<version>

mkdir /usr/share/skype

cp -a * /usr/share/skype/

cd /usr/share/skype/

mv skype /usr/bin/

mv skype.conf /etc/dbus-1/system.d/

chown <your-username>.<your-group> skype.desktop

mv skype.desktop ~<your-username>/Desktop

==================================== END COMMANDS ====================================

You should now see skype on your desktop, and you can right click the launcher and change the icon (pictures in /usr/share/skype/icons) now.

Thanks, Johnny Hughes

Thanks Johnny, I'll try installing skype the way you suggest - and thanks to others who've sent helpful replies. One question though - don't want to appear stupid, but what exactly is qt - I don't think it's the kernel (is it) but it's obviously a major part of the OS? By the way, are these deficiencies resolved in CentOS 5, which I have on my laptop (CentOS 4.4 is on my PC)?

Actually, I've just tried that and the launcher's now on my desktop - but how do I launch skype? When I (right) click on it nothing happens or try to launch from the command line, I get these errors:

skype: error while loading shared libraries: libsigc-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Are you sure you did not get the Dynamic instead of the Static version of skype ... or maybe somehow get the version out of your RPM.

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qt is this:

Summary : The shared library for the Qt GUI toolkit.

Description : Qt is a GUI software toolkit which simplifies the task of writing and maintaining GUI (Graphical User Interface) applications for the X Window System.

Qt is written in C++ and is fully object-oriented. =======================================

Basically ... all of KDE and many other applications are built using QT ... and they would all need to be rebuilt if you upgraded QT. Only a couple high visibility packages (like kernel, python, gcc and glibc) are more important to the operation of your workstation than QT.

Thanks, Johnny Hughes

--On Monday, October 22, 2007 2:39 PM -0400 Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org wrote:

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I can not make a "Redistributable" RPM, as Skype is not GPL ... so please don't ask :D

But a SPEC file could be distributed so other people can create their own RPMs from the static tarball :-)

For an example, see the JPackage group's repackaging of Sun's Java.

Andrew Allen wrote:

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Actually, I've just tried that and the launcher's now on my desktop - but how do I launch skype? When I (right) click on it nothing happens or try to launch from the command line, I get these errors:

skype: error while loading shared libraries: libsigc-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Are you sure you did not get the Dynamic instead of the Static version of skype ... or maybe somehow get the version out of your RPM.

Johnny, Yes, I got the static version skype_static-1.4.0.118.tar.bz2 - sorry, not quite sure what you mean by 'get the version out of your RPM'?

The reason I ask is that the "Static" version should NOT be trying to use a Shared library at all .... I am using skype and I do not have libsigc-2.0.so.0 installed ... somehow you have a dynamically linked skype binary on your system, not the static one.

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qt is this:

Summary : The shared library for the Qt GUI toolkit.

Description : Qt is a GUI software toolkit which simplifies the task of writing and maintaining GUI (Graphical User Interface) applications for the X Window System.

Qt is written in C++ and is fully object-oriented.

Basically ... all of KDE and many other applications are built using QT ... and they would all need to be rebuilt if you upgraded QT. Only a couple high visibility packages (like kernel, python, gcc and glibc) are more important to the operation of your workstation than QT.