[gentoo-user] can't launch skype...

[gentoo-user] can't launch skype...

[Tamer Higazi]

Hi people!

Totally strange, I have merged (previous) and now the least version. But
I cannot execute skype.
When I say: "whereis skype" I get the result:

skype: /usr/share/skype

tamer@tux /opt/jitsi $ ls -lA /usr/share/skype/
insgesamt 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096  1. Aug 22:07 avatars
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096  1. Aug 22:07 lang
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096  1. Aug 22:07 sounds


Do I have to be in a special group or something equal ?!
what did I make wrong ?!


I am not getting smart.


For Any ideas, thank you!



Tamer

Re: [gentoo-user] can't launch skype...

[Yohan Pereira]

On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 1:43 AM, Tamer Higazi <th982a@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi people!
>
> Totally strange, I have merged (previous) and now the least version. But
> I cannot execute skype.
> When I say: "whereis skype" I get the result:
>
> skype: /usr/share/skype
>

Not sure what your issue is exactly (path?) but the skype executable
is installed to /opt/bin.

 % which skype
/opt/bin/skype

Re: [gentoo-user] can't launch skype...

[Viktar Patotski]

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Hi, I had the same problem. Managed to solve it following way:
1. make sure that skype process not running
2. Backup your ~home/.skype and than delete it.
3. Start skype normally.

This way you loose all history which was stored on your PC, but skype runs
normally. You can restore chats history from backup you made earlier.

Viktar
On Aug 1, 2014 10:14 PM, "Tamer Higazi" <th982a@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi people!
>
> Totally strange, I have merged (previous) and now the least version. But
> I cannot execute skype.
> When I say: "whereis skype" I get the result:
>
> skype: /usr/share/skype
>
> tamer@tux /opt/jitsi $ ls -lA /usr/share/skype/
> insgesamt 12
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096  1. Aug 22:07 avatars
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096  1. Aug 22:07 lang
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096  1. Aug 22:07 sounds
>
>
> Do I have to be in a special group or something equal ?!
> what did I make wrong ?!
>
>
> I am not getting smart.
>
>
> For Any ideas, thank you!
>
>
>
> Tamer
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] can't launch skype...

[kirimaks]

check it:

~ # equery files skype

On 08/02/2014 12:13 AM, Tamer Higazi wrote:
> Hi people!
>
> Totally strange, I have merged (previous) and now the least version. But
> I cannot execute skype.
> When I say: "whereis skype" I get the result:
>
> skype: /usr/share/skype
>
> tamer@tux /opt/jitsi $ ls -lA /usr/share/skype/
> insgesamt 12
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096  1. Aug 22:07 avatars
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096  1. Aug 22:07 lang
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096  1. Aug 22:07 sounds
>
>
> Do I have to be in a special group or something equal ?!
> what did I make wrong ?!
>
>
> I am not getting smart.
>
>
> For Any ideas, thank you!
>
>
>
> Tamer
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] can't launch skype...

[Mick]

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On Friday 01 Aug 2014 21:13:07 Tamer Higazi wrote:
> Hi people!
> 
> Totally strange, I have merged (previous) and now the least version. But
> I cannot execute skype.
> When I say: "whereis skype" I get the result:
> 
> skype: /usr/share/skype
> 
> tamer@tux /opt/jitsi $ ls -lA /usr/share/skype/
> insgesamt 12
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096  1. Aug 22:07 avatars
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096  1. Aug 22:07 lang
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096  1. Aug 22:07 sounds
> 
> 
> Do I have to be in a special group or something equal ?!
> what did I make wrong ?!
> 
> 
> I am not getting smart.
> 
> 
> For Any ideas, thank you!

I had to install pulseaudio for the latest version of Skype to work, but I 
can't recall if had problems starting it before I installed pulseaudio.

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Regards,
Mick

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