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Use Skype 4.10 with openSUSE 12.3 x86_64

February 11th, 2013 by

I’m testing PulseAudio 3.0 on openSUSE 12.3 RC1 and it might be helpful to hang this information out here where Google can find it:

To use Skype with openSUSE 12.3, you need to download the Skype package for openSUSE.  If you’re using a 64 bit machine/install, like most of us nowadays, you also need some 32 bit compatibility packages, included with openSUSE.

  1. Download Skype from http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-linux/
  2. Select openSUSE 12.1 32 bit (the most recent openSUSE version for which they offer Skype at time of writing) and save the package
  3. As root,

    zypper in skype-4.1.0.20-suse.i586.rpm alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit

    to install the package, its 32 bit requirements, and the 32 bit ALSA plugin for PulseAudio it also needs, but doesn’t/can’t specify automatically.

Happy calling.

 

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  • Posted: 2013-02-11 - 14:18
  • Author: Will Stephenson
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3 Responses to “Use Skype 4.10 with openSUSE 12.3 x86_64”

  1. Maxim
    February 12, 2013 at 03:47 |

    Thanks, Will!

  2. gio
    March 21, 2013 at 12:58 |

    With newest 12.3 x86_64 it does not work for me. I always got the error
    Fatal: Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0x40801) with this library (version 0x40804)

    Please someone has any idea on how to solve this?

    I just updated my system from 12.2 (and it was working fine)

    thank you

  3. gio
    March 21, 2013 at 13:04 |

    Just solved, thanx to AlexZ005 (http://alexz005.blogspot.it/)

    zypper in xorg-x11-libXv-32bit
    zypper in libqt4-32bit libqt4-x11-32bit
    zypper in libpng12-0-32bit

    now it is working fine