{"id":514,"date":"2009-11-26T04:54:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T02:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/142.93.241.207\/?p=514"},"modified":"2009-11-26T07:20:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T05:20:24","slug":"514","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"Installing Skype on openSUSE 11.2 &#8211; 64 bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Skype is provided pre-packaged for openSUSE for 32 bit systems. However the RPM can be used without difficulty also on 64 bit systems, since openSUSE transparently manages bi-architecture packages. Unfortunately the 32 bit RPM does not install all the dependencies it needs to work correctly, and you have to fix them by hand as follows:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Install the skype rpm by typing in a root terminal: rpm -Uvh skype-2.1.0.47-suse.i586.rpm<\/li>\n<li> Open YaST software installer<\/li>\n<li> Search and select the following packages\n<ul>\n<li>xorg-x11-libXv-32bit<\/li>\n<li>libqt4-32bit<\/li>\n<li>libqt4-x11-32bit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Accept the additional dependencies proposed by the installer and proceed with the installation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At this point, you should be able to run skype without any difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy <img src=\"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/mrgreen.png\" alt=\":mrgreen:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skype is provided pre-packaged for openSUSE for 32 bit systems. However the RPM can be used without difficulty also on 64 bit systems, since openSUSE transparently manages bi-architecture packages. Unfortunately the 32 bit RPM does not install all the dependencies it needs to work correctly, and you have to fix them by hand as follows: Install the skype rpm by typing in a root terminal: rpm -Uvh skype-2.1.0.47-suse.i586.rpm Open YaST software installer Search and select the following packages xorg-x11-libXv-32bit libqt4-32bit libqt4-x11-32bit Accept the additional dependencies proposed by the installer and proceed with the installation At this point, you should be able to run skype without any difficulty. Enjoy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}