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#1 2010-02-20 03:36:51

jmak
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Registered: 2008-12-21
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skype won't start[SOLVED]

Hello,

I've installed skype and the installation went fine but I cannot start it. I get this error message.

[mak@myhost ~]$ skype
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libSM.so.6: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
[mak@myhost ~]$

I've searched the forum but found no reference to this error.

My system is 64 bit running under kde 4.4.

Could anyone help me fixing this error?

Thanks a lot,
jmak

Last edited by jmak (2010-02-20 15:10:25)

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#2 2010-02-20 04:44:03

n0dix
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Registered: 2009-09-22
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Re: skype won't start[SOLVED]

The installed package is from AUR?

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#3 2010-02-20 05:15:42

jmak
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Re: skype won't start[SOLVED]

n0dix wrote:

The installed package is from AUR?

I installed using yaourt.

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#4 2010-02-20 05:30:12

n0dix
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Re: skype won't start[SOLVED]

Do you have installed libsm package?

sudo pacman -S libsm

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#5 2010-02-20 06:46:30

toxygen
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Re: skype won't start[SOLVED]

on x86_64 it would be lib32-libsm for skype, if you used the aur package bin32-skype 2.1.0.81 (bin32-skype-oss doesnt work since the version was updated and skype no longer provides an oss package on the new version.  check out the aur/bug report if you need the oss version for a link to the older version 2.0.0.72)

Last edited by toxygen (2010-02-20 06:47:48)


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#6 2010-02-20 15:09:48

jmak
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Re: skype won't start[SOLVED]

Thanks a lot for the advises. Now, skype is working. The strange thing is that lib32-libsm was installed and it was up to date. I reinstalled it and after that skype worked.

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