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sbfreak

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Registered: 2010-06-06

Posts: 149

[SOLVED] skype 2.2.0.35-3 error

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/multi … _64/skype/

I get the following error.

skype: error while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Is there anyway to get around this bug at the moment ?
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29834
I really need skype.

Citric

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Registered: 2012-05-02

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Re: [SOLVED] skype 2.2.0.35-3 error

That's weird. I use Skype from pacman and it works without issues for me

This was just posted, and should be what you need: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=58875

Its lib32-libffi5 and should fix your issues.

R00KIE

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Re: [SOLVED] skype 2.2.0.35-3 error

Install (at least) lib32-libffi and make sure your system is _fully_ up-to-date, _no_ cherry picking updates.

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sbfreak

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Registered: 2010-06-06

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Re: [SOLVED] skype 2.2.0.35-3 error

Regarding lib32-libffi5.

  -> Extracting libffi-3.0.10.tar.gz with bsdtar
==> Starting build()...
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
continue configure in default builddir "./x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
....exec /bin/sh .././configure "--srcdir=.." "--enable-builddir=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu" "linux
gnu"
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for gsed... sed
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc -m32
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-root/aur-lib32-libffi5/src/libffi-3.0.10/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build lib32-libffi5.

I can't switch to HTTPS on AUR in order to log in so I can't report this.

It appears I had lib32-glib2-2.32.2-1 installed.
I downloaded lib32-glib2-2.32.2-2 from the main repo.
Everything works fine now.Thank you.