On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 07:18 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks again Johnny,
Any tips as to how I can get rid of all the skype stuff on my system and
try to install the static version again please?
Andy
> >> =======================================
> >>
> >> 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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