Skype not working on Mageia 5

[isadora]

Seems Microsoft has discontinued Skype 4.3 for Linux today because the Skype program now terminates when attempting to login.

Microsoft has a new Linux Skype version skypeforlinux-64.rpm that can be downloaded from https://www.skype.com/en/get-skype/

Unfortunately, skypeforlinux-64.rpm does not install due to missing dependencies:

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rpm -ivh skypeforlinux-64.rpm
warning: skypeforlinux-64.rpm: Header V4 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID df7587c3: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
        libsecret is needed by skypeforlinux-8.10.0.4-1.x86_64

It seems Mageia 5 does not have the 64-bit version of the libsecret rpm in the repositories. (32-bit libsecret is available)

Any ideas on how to get the new Skype to run on Mageia 5 ? I know that Mageia 5 has now reached end of life so I will need to install Mageia 6 soon.

I tried to install Fedora's 64-bit version of libsecret but got additional missing dependencies:

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rpm -ivh libsecret-0.18.5-3.fc26.i686.rpm
warning: libsecret-0.18.5-3.fc26.i686.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 64dab85d: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
        libgcrypt.so.20 is needed by libsecret-0.18.5-3.fc26.i686
        libgcrypt.so.20(GCRYPT_1.6) is needed by libsecret-0.18.5-3.fc26.i686

so I think I am digging a hole for myself with rpm hell.

[isadora]

OK, I should of done a search of the forum first.

I have found this thread
viewtopic.php?f=26&t=12015&p=70209&hilit=skype+not+working#p70209

The 64-bit version of libsecret is lib64secret and this library is already installed as

/usr/lib64/libsecret-1.so.0
/usr/lib64/libsecret-1.so.0.0.0

I tried to force the install of Skype:

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rpm -ivh --nodeps skypeforlinux-64.rpm
warning: skypeforlinux-64.rpm: Header V4 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID df7587c3: NOKEY
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
   1:skypeforlinux-8.10.0.4-1         ################################# [100%]
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start atd.service
error: unknown package manager
warning: %post(skypeforlinux-8.10.0.4-1.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

Seems the installation failed, however, I am able to run the new Skype by directly running:

/usr/share/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux

The old Skype 4.3 is still installed.

Any ideas on doing this better to get the new Skype integrated into KDE ?

[doktor5000]

You would need to take a look at the scripts run during the rpm installation and execute the relevant ones yourself.

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rpm -q --scripts --triggers skypeforlinux

Not sure what you mean about integrating it with KDE, do you mean like a start menu entry? You can create that for yourself easily.

[AstorBG]

I dont know, but my Skype 4.3 works prefectly. I was able to login and had chat and voice yesterday with a friend.
So I am not sure whether 4.3 has been discontinued yet.

Astor

[Erik]

Dear Merlin

In RosaLinux R9 I could not install the new Skypeforlinux because of missing dependency, libsecret I believe. Being curious I expanded the rpm-file with Ark in my Downloads directory. I got a new directory called " /usr". I tried " skypeforlinux in the /usr/bin/ directory and the program worked. The only thing that did not work is keeping user name and password in the wallet. So I manually copied all files from the /usr directory in my Downloads directory to the appropriate place in my system partition and made a link on my desktop. The only problem is that I must type my user name and password every time I start Skype.

Both in Mageia 6 Plasma and in RosaLinux R9 I am now on Skype Insider Preview, Skype-versie 8.9.76.63042, and it works well on both systems. In Rosa I must type user name and password each time I start the program.

I hope this will be useful to you.

Greetings,

Erik.

P.S. I also use qTox to chat with my brother far away. I prefer this program by far; it is in the repository. No spying by MS and/or others.

[flink]

I dont know, but my Skype 4.3 works prefectly. I was able to login and had chat and voice yesterday with a friend.
So I am not sure whether 4.3 has been discontinued yet.

Astor

After an update under Mageia-5 you will have the situation that Skype crashes after the login.

[viking60]

Old post but same issue.
I am helping someone out with Mageia 5 and I cannot see that there is any qtox there...at all.

I have tried to add the yandex repo but it was refused.

So how can I get qtox on mageia 5?

https://mageia.pkgs.org/5/mageia-russia ... 4.rpm.html

..you say?

Nope it fails with dependecy errors.

[doktor5000]

Nope it fails with dependecy errors.

And you don't want to share which that would be, and what repos you have enabled? Then you probably need to figure that out for yourself.

You could try to rebuild qtox from cauldron on mga5, but you probably would also need to backport necessary libraries to mga5.

[viking60]

Thanks for the quick reply ( Have missed your always positive attitude but you do answer fast ).

I is not limited to one library. but libtoxcore.so.0 comes to mind (if you try to install it other dependency protests will appear)

It is only the start because there is a long dependency list chain there so it does not look maintained at all.

You might well be right that I will have to figure it out by myself though.

In my view it will be way faster to replace the distro with another one where qtox works...Manjaro might not be for greenhorns but I can support it better since I am Archefied).

Still desperately hoping that you guys can pull this one out of the fire for me though....

[doktor5000]

Well, you do not provide any further context information or at least the output from urpmi for this. Seems like you were trying to directly install that package without having the MRC repos configured, this will only work for packages that are self-contained, which do not need other dependencies from that repo.

[viking60]

Adding repos fails ..for some reason.
I am doing this with teamviewer so I cannot provide anything else at this time. Has anybody installed a functioning qtox on Mageia 5? Maybe a small success story is all I need...

[Erik]

Dear viking60,

have a look here:

https://pkgs.org/download/qtox

Missing dependencies I found via:

https://www.rpmfind.net/

Usually I look for Mageia or Rosa rpm's.

Good luck.

Erik

[viking60]

Thanks been there done that and none of them works. Do they work for you?
Edit:
I see you edited above - thanks - I'll try the Rosa stuff.

[Erik]

I am on Mageia 6. I have installed:

qtox-201611180121~v1.6.0-6.3.x86_64.rpm
lib64vpx1 and lib64vpx3, lib64gcrypt20, libgcrypt20 32-bits libsecret-tools and libsecret-i18n from Mageia 6 repositories.

However when I started using qTox on Mageia 5 I downloaded these dependencies from the internet

lib64vpx1-1.3.0-3.1.mga5.x86_64.rpm
libgcrypt20-1.6.1-33.1.x86_64.rpm
libsecret-0.18.5-alt1.1.x86_64.rpm

I do not remember what exactly I did to get qTox working. I got the qTox-rpm from an opensuse website contributed by Antonbetenev. This site no longer exists.

I hope this helps.

Greetings, happy 2018.

Erik