On Saturday 23 September 2006 10:04, Christopher E. Granade wrote:
> Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> > On Saturday 23 September 2006 05:59, Christopher Granade wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> >> /opt/skype/skype.bin: error while loading shared libraries:
> >> libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> >> directory
> >>
> >> I then ran revdep-rebuild to try and fix the problem, and it said that
> >> that libstdc++.so.5 was broken, and that it would fix it. After
> >> revdep-rebuild ran, I went back to run Skype again and got the same
> >> error. Running revdep-rebuild a second time resulted in the exact same
> >> output. Any ideas? Thanks.
> >
> > revdep-rebuild doesn't look at /opt (which is where binary stuff like
> > skype is installed). Also remerging won't help since it's binary. It
> > won't be recompiled since the source code isn't available.
> >
> > sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 provides libstdc++.so.5:
> >
> > # emerge -va sys-libs/libstdc++-v3
>
> Running this command reveals that libstdc++-v3 was already emerged. I
> reemerged anyway, and the error persists. Thank you for the help, but it
> seems that there's something else wrong. Is this a problem with amd64?

Not really sure. On amd64 this requires some of the 
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-* packages (since skype is a 32 bit app), but it 
should pull them by itself... What does:

# equery check app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat

give? What version of skype are you using? Please also post the output of:

# emerge --info

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Bo Andresen