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greenpenguin

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Registered: 2007-01-30

Posts: 10

[Solved] Skype 'No such file or directory' weirdness

Having recently upgraded skype, I get the following bizzare behaviour:

[joseph@heliopause ~]$ skype
bash: /usr/bin/skype: No such file or directory
[joseph@heliopause ~]$ ls -l /usr/bin/skype
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21358456 Mar 13 15:45 /usr/bin/skype
[joseph@heliopause ~]$ /usr/bin/skype
bash: /usr/bin/skype: No such file or directory

I still get this if I extract the skype package (version 2.2.0.35-3) to a different partition and try to run that, or even if I use the official package from Skype's website. Other binaries on my system seem to work just fine.
Any suggestions? I've no idea what to try, short of a complete reinstall.

Last edited by greenpenguin (2012-04-09 14:12:09)

Duka

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From: R'lyeh

Registered: 2010-04-16

Posts: 34

Re: [Solved] Skype 'No such file or directory' weirdness

Check PATH in you /etc/profile. Also, paste output of

echo $PATH

and

which skype

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Cthulhu Fhtagn!

greenpenguin

Member

Registered: 2007-01-30

Posts: 10

Re: [Solved] Skype 'No such file or directory' weirdness

Seems OK:

[joseph@heliopause ~]$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/share/java/apache-ant/bin:/opt/mosml/bin:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/opt/qt/bin:/home/joseph/bin:/home/joseph/.perl6/bin:/home/joseph/bin:/home/joseph/.perl6/bin
[joseph@heliopause ~]$ which skype
/usr/bin/skype

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] Skype 'No such file or directory' weirdness

What's the output of 'file /usr/bin/skype'?
Are you using a 64-bit system and you downloaded a 32-bit binary?

greenpenguin

Member

Registered: 2007-01-30

Posts: 10

Re: [Solved] Skype 'No such file or directory' weirdness

Oh hang on, reinstalling all the lib32-* stuff on my system fixed it, must've had a corrupt file somewhere I suppose.
Many thanks!