On Tue, 16 May 2006 22:47:42 -1000 Stephen Bartlett wrote: > > linux_enable="YES" > > should be enough. > > FWIW, I had had Skype running fine on 6.0-RELEASE -- then it stopped > working for some unknown reason. Symptoms were that the Skype > process would start, fire up some child processes, but never bring up > any windows. > > I upgraded to 6.1-RELEASE, did a portupgrade, and still had the same > problem with Skype. After reading that other people still were able > to run Skype, I decided to start all over with it: deinstalled > net/skype, deinstalled the emulators/linux_base-suse-9.3 that I'd > been using, and 'rm -rf /compat/linux/*'. Then, I just: > > cd /usr/ports/net/skype > make install > (that ended up installing linux_base-8)
Yep, but you've probably been left with outdated libraries. Try to use portupgrade or portmanager, they both do a very good job in updating dependencies. > > Although the build/install went fine, Skype wouldn't start due to > missing libraries. So I copied them over from a Linux partition > (happens to be Gentoo): libGL.so.1 libXmu.so.6 > libXrandr.so.2 > libXcursor.so.1 > libXft.so.2 > libSM.so.6 > libICE.so.6 > libXext.so.6 > libX11.so.6 > libXxf86vm.so.1 > libXt.so.6 > libXrender.so.1 > libexpat.so.0 > Mine works ok, 6.1-STABLE as of yesterday. I think your system misses some updated linux-\* ports: pkg_glob -R skype linux_dri-4.4.0 linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_4 linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_7 linux_base-8-8.0_14 linux-expat-1.95.7_1 skype-1.2.0.18 Do you have latest versions of the above installed? -- Adi Pircalabu (PGP Key ID 0x04329F5E) -- This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender. For more information please visit http://www.bitdefender.com/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"