Subject: Re: skype is really stale
To: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
From: Zafer Aydogan <zafer@aydogan.de>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 08/21/2007 11:31:55
It's been a while, but I had extracted the libasound Library from a
Linux tgz and it worked perfectly for me. It was probably the wrong
way to do it. But it worked. That was with Skype 1.3.0.53 and with
4.99.3 about October 2006. I haven't used Skype since.

Screenshot: http://wiki.netbsd.se/images/3/38/2006-10-14-154027_1152x864_scrot.png

Zafer.

2007/8/21, Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 08:56:37AM +0100, Adrian Portelli wrote:
> > clayton wrote:
> > ...
> > > {2} skype&
> > > {3} ./skype: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2:
> > > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > ...
> >
> > At a wild guess try installing the wip/alsa-lib package.  If this fixes
> > your issue a mail to reed@ asking for it to be imported and a DEPENDS
> > added would seem like a logical move.
> >
> > adrian.
> >
>
> wip/alsa-lib is not a linux binary package.  It's a source package with
> ONLY_FOR_PLATFORM=Linux-*-* so I don't think this will help.
>
>         Geert
>
>