Skype Community > How to run the 1.4 alpha [SOLVED]

Béèm

Sun May 27 2007, 09:46

Being new to Linux I still have problems to run/install new programs.
Having troubles (with sound quality) in 1.3 I saw and downloaded the 1.4 alpha hoping it would be better.
After extracting I have the sound subdirectory and a huge 17MB skype file which is indicated as executable.
But it doesn't execute
Following is what I did:

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sh-3.00# ls -l
total 17164
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17545124 May 21 15:41 skype
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 21 15:41 sounds
sh-3.00# skype
sh: skype: command not found
sh-3.00# sh skype
skype: skype: cannot execute binary file
sh-3.00#

What am I doing wrong?[b]

Martin Swift

Sun May 27 2007, 10:00

Hi Béèm,

You may have the problem that the shell can't find the executable. Try running
./skype
If this works, you may want to direct the shell to the executable by adding the directory to the PATH environment variable. You can view the path with `echo $PATH` and add a directory by:
PATH=$PATH:/path/to/directory
An alternative method is to simply move the executable to a directory that is already in the path (such as /usr/local/bin/, or something similar).

Hope that helps.

Béèm

Sun May 27 2007, 11:38

QUOTE(Martin Swift @ Sun May 27 2007, 10:00) [snapback]399852[/snapback]

Hi Béèm,

You may have the problem that the shell can't find the executable. Try running
./skype
If this works, you may want to direct the shell to the executable by adding the directory to the PATH environment variable. You can view the path with `echo $PATH` and add a directory by:
PATH=$PATH:/path/to/directory
An alternative method is to simply move the executable to a directory that is already in the path (such as /usr/local/bin/, or something similar).

Hope that helps.

Thank you I have advanced with one step.
Now I will probably get the messages about dependencies.
The first one being

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sh-3.00# skype
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
sh-3.00#

Any idea where I can get that one?
Might there be other dependencies?

Martin Swift

Sun May 27 2007, 12:47

QUOTE(Béèm @ Sun May 27 2007, 11:38) [snapback]399869[/snapback]

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sh-3.00# skype
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any idea where I can get that one?

At this point, it's probably wisest to turn to your distribution's community for support. All I know about PuppyLinux is what I read on its Wikipedia entry and haven't a clue how the package managers work. I can tell you that libdbus is a library for dbus which is a message bus system that allows programs to talk to one another.

QUOTE(Béèm @ Sun May 27 2007, 11:38) [snapback]399869[/snapback]

Might there be other dependencies?

Possibly, yes, and sorting them out on your own is a pain. The various distributions come with a number of system administration tools, most notably a package manager which is supposed to take care of these dependency issues.

Sorry, I can't be of more help.

Béèm

Sun May 27 2007, 13:07

Thank you Martin for your time.
Didn't find it in the Puppy package manager, but will addres the issue in the Puppy forum.

Bernard

Béèm

Sun May 27 2007, 23:43

Somebody in the Puppy forum gave me the libdbusxxx files.
After that I had to download and install libstdc++ and then skype did run.
A call to Skype Test Call learned me that the sound was relatively good and not chopped anymore as with the 1.3 version.

berkus

Fri Jun 1 2007, 19:31

QUOTE(Béèm @ Mon May 28 2007, 01:43) [snapback]400025[/snapback]

Somebody in the Puppy forum gave me the libdbusxxx files.
After that I had to download and install libstdc++ and then skype did run.
A call to Skype Test Call learned me that the sound was relatively good and not chopped anymore as with the 1.3 version.

Hurray!