Request: Skype dependencies (dbus-1 >= 0.23, libqt3c102-mt >= 3:3.3.3)

[pfp]

Skype provides a .deb package, but it depends on more recent libs than what Ubuntu provides. Namely dbus-1 >= 0.23 and libqt3c102-mt >= 3:3.3.3 (and their dependencies).

http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/

Debian testing has these libs, but using it would bring in Debian's libc6 and lots of other libs too..

BTW, could it be possible to include Skype itself? Altough I doubt their license permits redistribution...

/ peter

[ggozad]

I installed succesfully skype with not problems. You don't need the libs from Debian they exist for Ubuntu.
If you don't want the libraries you can always download the static binary provided in the Skype download page.

[jdong]

Bringing in new versions of these libraries would also cause incompatibility with the packages compiled against the official versions of these libraries. So, it seems like I can't do so.

[ZeroA4]

Skype provides a .deb package, but it depends on more recent libs than what Ubuntu provides. Namely dbus-1 >= 0.23 and libqt3c102-mt >= 3:3.3.3 (and their dependencies).

http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/

Debian testing has these libs, but using it would bring in Debian's libc6 and lots of other libs too..

BTW, could it be possible to include Skype itself? Altough I doubt their license permits redistribution...

/ peter
You can follow this http://ubuntuguide.org/#skype, they have a link to a modified .deb that refers to the libs in Ubuntu repos.

Or you can install the libs and force install the official .deb

[pfp]

You can follow this http://ubuntuguide.org/#skype, they have a link to a modified .deb that refers to the libs in Ubuntu repos.

Or you can install the libs and force install the official .deb

Hmm, seems I was asleep when hoary was released; I wrote my original post while still on warty. It seems the .deb from skype.com installs cleanly on Hoary.

Anyway, thanks for the info :)