KDE 4.5 libraries problem with Skype

Tue Aug 31 01:26:27 UTC 2010

2010/8/30 Ryan Rix <ry at n.rix.si>

> On Mon 30 August 2010 17:43:12 Manuel Escudero wrote:
> > 2010/8/30 Manuel Escudero <Jmlevick at gmail.com>
> >
> > > 2010/8/30 John5342 <john5342 at gmail.com>
> > >
> > > 2010/8/31 Manuel Escudero <Jmlevick at gmail.com>:
> > >> > Maybe because you have a 32 Bits System, there shouldn't have to be
> a
> > >> > problem... But I'm running a 64 Bit one
> > >>
> > >> You haven't actually so far stated what the problem is you are having
> > >> with skype. Only that it doesn't work. What i can say is it works fine
> > >> here on F13 using qt 4.7 on x86_64. I just installed the standard
> > >> Fedora rpms provided along with the i686 version of qt and the
> > >> appropriate i686 pulseaudio libs. I forget exactly which one is needed
> > >> but i have alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 and pulseaudio-libs.i686
> > >> installed currently.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary
> > >> and those who don't...
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> > >
> > > Yep. It worked fine for me until I upgraded to KDE 4.5 my fedora 13
> > > because of the new Qt libraries... I can't install 32 bit Skype's
> > > dependencies on my Fedora 13 x86_64 KDE 4.5 because the Qt 32 bit
> > > libraries that skype needs have conflicts with the newer ones, and if I
> > > downgrade the Qt Libraries all my KDE 4.5 installation gets broken
> >
> > I've been investigating... is Fedora's problem, not skype... Fedora 13
> does
> >
> > > not provide a 32 bit package for the qt libraries in their "1:4.7"
> > > version, only a 64 bit one, at least
> >
> > in my package manager this is what I have, and I also have a 32 bit
> version
> > but it's only of the "1:4.6" release... Hope you take this in count...
> >
> > New Libraries in both architechtures seem to be present in fedora 14 and
> > RPMFind says in Fedora 15 too.
>
> So, I'm going to try to ignore the personal attack which you sent me on the
> Ambassadors list, and help you, since I think I know what happened after
> thinking about it all afternoon...
>
> I assume, since Qt4.7 and KDE4.5 aren't in Fedora's main repositories yet
> (note that; you're using unofficial repositories provided by community
> members!), that you're using builds from kde-redhat.sf.net... Correct me if
> I'm wrong. If I'm not, in that case, the problem is that by default
> applications and libraries in there arne't multilib'd, and that they aren't
> kept in the same repository; there are different repositories for 32 bit
> and
> 64 bit.
>
> I assume you don't have the kde-redhat 32 bit repo enabled. Looking at
> /etc/yum.repos.d/kde.repo, the mirrorlist points to, for example
> http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/mirrors-testing, which are
> mirrors like http://mirror.unl.edu/kde-
> redhat/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/testing ... $basearch is of course
> expanding to x86_64, leaving all the i686 packages unreachable in the kde-
> redhat repositories.
>
> So, take one of the mirrors in your mirrorlist, add a new entry to kde.repo
> for each repo:
>
> [kde-i686]
> name=kde
> baseurl=http://mirror.unl.edu/kde-redhat/fedora/$releasever/i686/testing
> gpgkey=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/kde-redhat.RPM-GPG-KEYat
> enabled=1
>
>
> Note that none of these issues will exist when KDE Plasma Desktop and the
> KDE
> Application Suite 4.5 are officially supported by us.
>
> Oh, and that's the "proper" branding... KDE-promo intended the "KDE SC"
> terminology to be an engineering term (not something for End Users), but it
> caught on. There are two "products", the KDE Plasma Deskop, Plasma kwin
> etc,
> and the KDE Application Suite, which is all the applications which are
> developed by KDE, the community behind the products.
>
> The KDE SIG is appreciative of all users' testing of KDE prereleases, but
> there will always be complications involved, bugs, etc, and we appreciate
> all
> feedback on the releases.
>
> ~r
>
> > > --
> > > <-Manuel Escudero->
> > > Linux User #509052
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I've got the solution, thanks!! Now Skype is working and I have the lastest
32 Bit Qt libraries installed in my 64 bit Fedora 13 with KDE 4.5!! :D

-- 
<-Manuel Escudero->
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