Anybody know how to run Skype for Linux on FreeBSD

[Adam Smith]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:16:33AM +0200, Hasse said:
> Hi everybody.
> Anybody know how to run Skype for Linux ?
> On my desktop, I'm running 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 and I'm trying to get Skype for 
> Linux to run.
> Description of the program : http://www.skype.com/
> Download Linux version : http://www.skype.com/download_linux.html
> 
> I have Linux bin installed, but don't know how run any lin-apps. :-)


Why don't you install it from the FreeBSD ports instead?

cd /usr/ports/net/skype
make
make install


Cheers,

Adam








> 
> What I've done this far, is to untar the skype_ver-0_90_0_6.tar.bz2 
> in /usr/local/etc, for the simplicity, renamed it to skype and tried to run 
> it with the following command : sh / usr/local/etc/skype/skype and it gives 
> me the following message :
> /usr/local/etc/skype/skype: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
> 
> When I try just  / usr/local/etc/skype/skype  I get :
> /usr/local/etc/skype/skype: error while loading shared libraries: 
> libqt-mt.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> Then I try : locate libqt-mt.so.3 , and I get :
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libqt-mt.so.3.3
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libqt-mt.so.3.3.2
> /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libqt-mt.so.3.3.1
> 
> And I'm trying all this logged in as root.
> 
> I know this is a long and stupid post, but ........
> 
> TIA
> Hasse.
> 
> 
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