On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 04:08:21AM -0500, Eben King wrote:
>
>> I downloaded and untarred Skype. Can't run it here (Ubuntu 8.04, 2.6.26.5)
>> but I can in a VM (Ubuntu 8.10, 2.6.24.7). Here I get:
>>
>> eben@pc:/misc/torrent/skype-2.0.0.72$ ./skype
>> bash: ./skype: cannot execute binary file
>>
>> eben@pc:/misc/torrent/skype-2.0.0.72$ file ./skype
>> ./skype: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for
>> GNU/Linux 2.4.1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
>>
>> eben@pc:/misc/torrent/skype-2.0.0.72$ ldd ./skype
>> not a dynamic executable
>>
>> I don't think the distro matters much, since I have different
>> custom-compiled kernels in each location. Any idea why this won't work?
>> How do I check if I can execute 32-bit programs?
>
> I hate to point out the obvious, but an error like this from bash
> typically means that execute permissions are turned off for the file.
> You might try chmod +x skype.
Nope:
eben@pc:/misc/torrent/skype-2.0.0.72$ ls -l skype
14M -rwxr-xr-x 1 eben eben 14M 2008-05-28 06:16 skype*
"./sk<tab>" worked, so I had a fairly good idea that wasn't the case
beforehand.
I ran it enough in VMware to sign up and do a voice-only test call (I'm
"EbenKing"), but it unceremoniously crashed when it tried to display video
and didn't have Xv support. I got mplayer to display the webcam, so it's
not _any_ webcam video. I'll look at xorg.conf, but I have a hunch the
VMware (emulated) video card doesn't support Xv.
-- -eben QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP royalty.mine.nu:81Hi! I'm a .sig virus! Copy me to your .sig!
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