Andrew Allen wrote: >>> Actually, I've just tried that and the launcher's now on my desktop - but how do I launch skype? When I (right) click on it nothing happens or try to launch from the command line, I get these errors: >>> >>> skype: error while loading shared libraries: libsigc-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory >> Are you sure you did not get the Dynamic instead of the Static version >> of skype ... or maybe somehow get the version out of your RPM. >> > Johnny, > Yes, I got the static version skype_static-1.4.0.118.tar.bz2 - sorry, > not quite sure what you mean by 'get the version out of your RPM'? The reason I ask is that the "Static" version should NOT be trying to use a Shared library at all .... I am using skype and I do not have libsigc-2.0.so.0 installed ... somehow you have a dynamically linked skype binary on your system, not the static one. >> ======================================= >> >> qt is this: >> >> Summary : The shared library for the Qt GUI toolkit. >> >> Description : >> Qt is a GUI software toolkit which simplifies the task of writing and >> maintaining GUI (Graphical User Interface) applications >> for the X Window System. >> >> Qt is written in C++ and is fully object-oriented. >> ======================================= >> >> Basically ... all of KDE and many other applications are built using QT >> ... and they would all need to be rebuilt if you upgraded QT. Only a >> couple high visibility packages (like kernel, python, gcc and glibc) are >> more important to the operation of your workstation than QT.
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