Hello

I'm using Skype 1.0.0.7 on Ubuntu Hoary (based on Debian), and the profile pictures doesn't work. I cannot see anybody's picture, nor set mine.

Anybody has an idea ???

Thank you.

up :roll:

You can't see other peoples picture till they authorize you. Add Echo123 to your contacts list and you can see
the image, but before that you won't see the image.

If that fails maybe you are missing some required packages?

If I run skype on windows, all my contacts have a picture. On linux, I cannot see any of them. These people have already authorized me.

Well, not to be argumentative, but what happened when you tried what I suggested?
The authorizations are stored on each specific machine. Linux does not know about the windows authorizations.

Actually authorizations now go through central contactlist and get from one machine to other.

Presuming, of course, that he uses the same login on both systems....

Hello,
I just updated my machine from Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 (amd64) to Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 (amd64) , and used the Skype version for Feisty. I don't see any profile pictures any more. I did on Edgy, using the dynamic Skype.
I tried dynamic on Feisty, no luck.
I tried deleting my Skype config directory, no luck.
I tried using a 96x96 px photo for myself, no luck.
This is Skype version 1.4.0.99.

Hi -- do you see any pictures and icons in the client? It's possible that libjpeg or libpng support on your system may have become broken during the upgrade?

Andrew.

Or your qt is built without png/jpg support.

I'm also having this problem. I am unable to add an image, and I can't see other's profile images either.

I'm running skype 1.4.99 beta on Debian Linux (amd64). Unless png/jpeg support is statically linked, libQtCore was not built with that support. Am I reading this wrong? That seems awfully surprising if that is the case.


david@zepto:/emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib$ ldd libQtCore.so.4.2.1
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xf7d8d000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libz.so.1 (0xf7d79000)
libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xf7ce6000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7cd5000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf7cd1000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf7bee000)
libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7bca000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf7bbf000)
libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7a93000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libfreetype.so.6 (0xf7a29000)
libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libexpat.so.1 (0xf7a0a000)
librt.so.1 => /lib32/librt.so.1 (0xf7a02000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x56555000)


None of the icons in skype are missing. Are none of them jpeg or png?

Hmm, the graphics in the client itself are png. But the avatars are jpg. So it sounds like just jpg support is missing in this instance.

You could try the static build, which should include this support built-in. Or check your Qt installation. Could be some incompatible jpg libraries (32-bit vs 64-bit) or something similar going on.

Andy.

Before I saw this post, I noticed that the static version indeed works.
I am running Feisty 64 if I did not mention it before.
The problem with the static version is that I cannot type Finnish characters (or Chinese or anything else I'd like) though the current dynamic version does not allow typing Chinese with SCIM either . At least I get Finnish with that one.

I tried installing the 32-bit libjpeg, no luck. libpng is already installed. I am using the qt from
http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/q/qt4-x11/
And installed skype following this howto: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=432295 (the amd64 section). This is required even for the static version, as it is not exactly static. It wants qt-dbus and other things even though it is supposed to be static...

Any suggestions on where to get a suitably working 32-bit qt? Will try ubuntu repositories and then cross-compiling it myself if no-one has better suggestions.

No luck with the QT in the repositories. This is weird, since it worked in edgy. They could have compiled the new qt without jpeg support, but why?
Cross compile does not finish. The QT sources decide to compile everything in 32, until qmake does not find my 32-bit libc6 or libm and switches to -m64. Now how do I tell QT to use /lib32 instead of /lib?
Tried also creating some symlinks to libjpeg.so.62 named libjpeg.so if the QT would be looking for it with a wrong name (assuming the Ubuntu QT or the one in my source mentioned earlier would use external libjpeg instead of in-qt jpeg support) but no luck with that either. Installed some libmng and libpng and libjpeg a few times. Ran the nice getlibs script ( http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=474790 ) on Skype. It said no deps are missing (which further strengthens the likelihood that I have everything but QT does not do what it should); installed qt using getlibs a few times.
No luck...

There apparently is a bug in Ubuntu QT4. Jpeg support does not work.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/q...x11/+bug/114416

But Skype profile pictures work on my upgraded Feisty laptop (from Edgy). The laptop is 32-bit.
I copied all qt related from the laptop's /usr/lib to my desktop's /usr/lib32.
No luck.
Why?
Now I am rather lost on how to fix this....

There are NUMEROUS problems like this, mostly ALSA related, but SCIM input is the most annoying. All of this only because Skype does not support amd64...

Once Linux Skype gets camera and other features support, amd64 users will only get more & more problems if developers dont support amd64 arch.

Skype, please support amd64...