Re: unable to install Skype

Richard Müller inscribed forevermore utilizing silicon chips::

Hi all,
I tried to install Skype on my opensuse 11.1-x86 computer. I got the Linux
package from Skype (their recent Linux website, for opensuse 11+).
After installing and typing "skype" in the terminal I got the following
message:
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libQtDBus.so.4: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory


I think I installed Skype from the openSuse (10.3) repositories. It went
smoothly. Version 1.4.0.118-suse. Oops, strike that. I see I downloaded
it.

This is the dependency list:
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
libpthread.so.0
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2)
libm.so.6
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)
libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4)
libstdc++.so.6
libc.so.6
libgcc_s.so.1
libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3.1)
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0)
libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3)
libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.0)
libasound.so.2(ALSA_0.9)
libasound.so.2(ALSA_0.9.0rc4)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)
libasound.so.2
libgcc_s.so.1(GLIBC_2.0)
librt.so.1
libsigc-2.0.so.0
libX11.so.6
libQtCore.so.4
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.1)
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.3.2)
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2)
libQtGui.so.4
libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.4)
libQtDBus.so.4
libQtNetwork.so.4
libqt4-x11 >= 4.2



Ok, let's install the libQtDbus library. That was impossible: Every
package had two or more dependencies, which weren't fulfilled. The search
for some of the packages led to no results. Once a package called rpmlib
was asked. rpmlib didn't show up in any repo and rpmsite searched.. so I
tried rpm.- lib. No it didn't work, because rpm-lib asked for beecrypt.
beecrypt I could not install because it aked for rpm-lib..

I cannot imagine that it is so difficult to install a mainstream program
as
skype. I think, others did...

Do you have any hints to help me?

Thanks - Richard

Sometimes using Smart Package Manager sorts out the dependency problem that
YAST has a problem with.

Try (without quotes) in a terminal might need to use "su" {the superuser
mode] rpm --rebuilddb

There are some other things to try but I forget what they are just now.


--
Later,
Darrell
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