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Skype problem
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 10:52 am
by Acetilene
Hi guys! I have tried to install Skype from ports. The build process is finished without any problem, but when I try to start the program nothing happens... In terminal I can see this error:
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[damiano@ghost /usr/home/damiano]$ skype
/usr/local/share/skype/skype: error while loading shared libraries: libfreetype.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Any idea?
Re: Skype problem
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 6:31 pm
by ericbsd
how did you install your ports on FreeBSD? Did you use the tar file or portsnap?
It look like your missing freetype. Try in terminal:
I don't now which one you need to install, but try those in order.
print/freetype2
print/freetype
if the ports is install
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make deinstall clean && make reinstall clean
Tips for you to save time instead of doing
make install clean do a
make config-recursive install clean it will bring all configuration window first after it will compile.
Re: Skype problem
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:23 pm
by Acetilene
I have upgraded freetype2 and installed freetype, but nothing is changed... This is very strange! I have always installed ports with portsnap and on ghostbsd 3.0 with LXDE I didn't found any problem with skype... (now I' m working on the Gnome 2 edition)
Re: Skype problem
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 8:24 pm
by ericbsd
Re: Skype problem
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:30 pm
by Acetilene
I don't understand...
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portsnap fetch && portsnap extract
isn't the default way to get ports?
Re: Skype problem
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 4:37 pm
by ericbsd
Yes its the default way to get ports, but you get the latest ports revision. By using the updated ports you will get some conflict if the all the software in your system is not all to date to that ports. GhostBSD is build over the release ports.
Re: Skype problem
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:05 pm
by Acetilene
Nothing to do... The build process work fine, but when I try to start skype the terminal give the same error output...
Re: Skype problem
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 9:00 am
by ericbsd
This is weird but I will try to install Skype on a system and try to see how to fix it. and comeback to you.
Re: Skype problem
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 9:15 am
by ericbsd
I have install Skype on updated package. It work great, but I might have to try an outdated package system.
Re: Skype problem
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 7:50 pm
by ericbsd
I have try with portinstall from portupgrade and it work.
This is what i did:
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cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade
make config-recursive install clean
In the same time I downloaded and installed src.txz because some ports need that.
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fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/i386/9.1-RELEASE/src.txz
tar -xz -C / -f src.txz
When all was install I did.
all work perfectly.