Skype on SLED

People have been asking me for a skype call lately, and seeing that SLED11 SP3 has Qt4.6, which doesn't fit in the minimum requirements for Qt4.7 of Skype, I'd like to know how to have skype working on SLED11 SP3.

I already used the guide in some other thread on this forum, and installed the following packages.

yast -i glibc-32bit libasound2-32bit xorg-x11-libXv-32bit xorg-x11-libs-32bit libqt4-32bit libQtWebKit4-32bit libstdc++46-32bit alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit


And I was able to run Skype with no errors showing up in the terminal where I ran it from.
However,

I couldn't login with my new Microsoft account.

TLDR:

I also asked on the skype forum for an older package of skype suitable for dynamic deployment on SLED
and I assigned a special destination port 5505 for skype and opened it in the yast firewall.

Given the list of packages you say you've installed, it looks like you're using SLED 11 SP3 64bit, correct?

The Dynamic package for version 4.2.0.13 (the current version) works for me
http://www.skype.com/en/download-sky.../?type=dynamic
The packages you list are the ones I found I needed to install to get Skype 4.2.0.13 working. I very rarely use Skype, but I've just launched it and logged in successfully.

Since you say it runs and there's no visible errors, could the problem be with the account you're trying to log in with? Are you able to try using it with Skype on another device? The account I use for Skype pre-dates Skype being acquired by Microsoft so it's just a Skype account.

Yes, this is SLED 11 SP3 64bit.

For the Skype part, I only have the Microsoft account, so I will try it on some other OS later today.

I had the same problem and if I recall correctly it was solved after installing openssl packages

Hope this helps

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Originally Posted by aabdelkhalek

I had the same problem and if I recall correctly it was solved after installing openssl packages

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The only 32bit openssl package I have installed is libopenssl0_9_8-32bit. If I uninstall that then Skype still works.

The other openssl packages I have installed are openssl and libopenssl0_9_8. If I ask zypper to remove libopenssl0_9_8 it wants to remove 820 packages, so I think it's safe to say that if libopenssl0_9_8 isn't installed your system is either broken or so minimal it wouldn't get as far as even launching Skype. If I ask zypper to remove openssl it only wants to remove 96 packages, but one of those is zypper, so if you don't have openssl installed then you have bigger problems than Skype not connecting.

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Originally Posted by mikewillis

The only 32bit openssl package I have installed is libopenssl0_9_8-32bit. If I uninstall that then Skype still works.

The other openssl packages I have installed are openssl and libopenssl0_9_8. If I ask zypper to remove libopenssl0_9_8 it wants to remove 820 packages, so I think it's safe to say that if libopenssl0_9_8 isn't installed your system is either broken or so minimal it wouldn't get as far as even launching Skype. If I ask zypper to remove openssl it only wants to remove 96 packages, but one of those is zypper, so if you don't have openssl installed then you have bigger problems than Skype not connecting.

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Maybe when you uninstall libopenssl0_9_8-32bit, Skype still works with the skype account but does it work with the Microsoft account?

This is the problem I had; Skype was working and I could login with my Skype ID but when I try to login with my Microsoft account, it fails.

When I installed the openssl packages I managed to login with my Microsoft account (seems that in that particular part ssl is needed)

Thanks
Ahmed

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Originally Posted by aabdelkhalek

Maybe when you uninstall libopenssl0_9_8-32bit, Skype still works with the skype account but does it work with the Microsoft account?

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Good point, I only tested with a Skype account.

Out of curiosity I signed up for a Microsoft account. Then I tried to log in to Skype with it and I can't. It's not that I try to log in and it fails, it's that the option to log in with a Microsoft account to appear doesn't even appear. Click 'Alternatively sign in with Microsoft Account' and the login dialogue appears for a split second then the Skype login dialogue comes back. This happens regardless of whether libopenssl0_9_8-32bit is installed or not and persists if the firewall is disabled (OP made mention of opening port on firewall, something I've never had to do to make Skype work.)

The original poster said "I couldn't login with my new Microsoft account." and I can't log in with my new Microsoft account, but I the reasons might actually be different. The original poster made no mention of their inability to login with their Microsoft account being because the option to do so isn't accessible.

Logging in to Skype with a Microsoft account works fine on openSUSE 13.1 64bit.

Curious.

This is the situation (the login dialogue appears for a split second and disappears) that I had and I thought it was solved with libopenssl installation but maybe I'm wrong!

I also installed libopenssl1_0_0-1.0.1e-155.1

Anyway, I was just trying to share my experience, too bad that I was not able to pinpoint the exact action that resolved the issue back then

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Originally Posted by mikewillis

Good point, I only tested with a Skype account.

Out of curiosity I signed up for a Microsoft account. Then I tried to log in to Skype with it and I can't. It's not that I try to log in and it fails, it's that the option to log in with a Microsoft account to appear doesn't even appear. Click 'Alternatively sign in with Microsoft Account' and the login dialogue appears for a split second then the Skype login dialogue comes back. This happens regardless of whether libopenssl0_9_8-32bit is installed or not and persists if the firewall is disabled (OP made mention of opening port on firewall, something I've never had to do to make Skype work.)

The original poster said "I couldn't login with my new Microsoft account." and I can't log in with my new Microsoft account, but I the reasons might actually be different. The original poster made no mention of their inability to login with their Microsoft account being because the option to do so isn't accessible.

Logging in to Skype with a Microsoft account works fine on openSUSE 13.1 64bit.

Curious.

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That's right. I can basically open skype from a command line, and there I have the login screen. However, the alternative option to sign in with a Microsoft account is not doing anything.

And I'm glad to hear that Skype works for you. I was even trying to find out if skype performs the same error on another distro, Thanks for mentioning that.

Anyway, I already had all the openssl packages mentioned:

# rpm -qa|grep -i ssl
openssl-0.9.8j-0.52.1
perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA-0.25-3.14
perl-IO-Socket-SSL-1.38-5.2.2
libopenssl0_9_8-0.9.8j-0.52.1
perl-Net-SSLeay-1.35-2.14
perl-Crypt-SSLeay-0.57-1.15.1
openssl-certs-1.96-0.4.1
libopenssl0_9_8-32bit-0.9.8j-0.52.1

However, my system is the same since downloading the trial version and registering it, except for these packages:
glibc-32bit libasound2-32bit xorg-x11-libXv-32bit xorg-x11-libs-32bit libqt4-32bit libQtWebKit4-32bit libstdc++46-32bit alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit

So my conclusion is that there is a package that will bring skype to show up the alternative login screen for the Microsoft account, and I'll let you know when I find it.

Not sure if you're still trying to use your Microsoft account to login to Skype or not any more but just to let you know, I just downloaded the dynamic package of their latest version 4.3 and I managed to login with my Microsoft account.

It just needed the package LibQtWebKit-devel and that's it

Good luck,
Ahmed