Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Saturday 23 September 2006 10:04, Christopher E. Granade wrote: > >> Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: >> >>> On Saturday 23 September 2006 05:59, Christopher Granade wrote: >>> [...] >>> >>> >>>> /opt/skype/skype.bin: error while loading shared libraries: >>>> libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or >>>> directory >>>> >>>> I then ran revdep-rebuild to try and fix the problem, and it said that >>>> that libstdc++.so.5 was broken, and that it would fix it. After >>>> revdep-rebuild ran, I went back to run Skype again and got the same >>>> error. Running revdep-rebuild a second time resulted in the exact same >>>> output. Any ideas? Thanks. >>>> >>> revdep-rebuild doesn't look at /opt (which is where binary stuff like >>> skype is installed). Also remerging won't help since it's binary. It >>> won't be recompiled since the source code isn't available. >>> >>> sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 provides libstdc++.so.5: >>> >>> # emerge -va sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 >>> >> Running this command reveals that libstdc++-v3 was already emerged. I >> reemerged anyway, and the error persists. Thank you for the help, but it >> seems that there's something else wrong. Is this a problem with amd64? >> > > Not really sure. On amd64 this requires some of the > app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-* packages (since skype is a 32 bit app), but it > should pull them by itself... What does: > > # equery check app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat > > give? What version of skype are you using? Please also post the output of: > > # emerge --info > > Well, I didn't know about equery check. That told me that the package was broken, and so I reemerged it. Skype now works! Thank you so much. --Christopher Granade -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
