Re: skype is really stale

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 11:31:55AM +0200, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> 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.


We should add a linux binary package for libasound (suse_* style) and make
the skype package depend on it.

        Geert


> 
> Screenshot: 
> http://wiki.netbsd.se/images/3/38/2006-10-14-154027_1152x864_scrot.png
> 
> Zafer.
> 
> 2007/8/21, Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost>:
> > 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
> >
> >