Tuesday, August 25, 2009

How to install skype on slackware(using slackBuilds)

For installing slack using slackbuilds you first need to downlaod the skype.xxxx.tar.bz2 from the link below


 http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/skype/build/

After downloading save it some where ,say in skype folder

Now open any text editor paste the content of the following link
inside this text file

http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/skype/build/skype.SlackBuild

now save this text file  in same folder and name it skype.SlackBuilds

Again  create a text file slack-desc and put the content of the following link inside that file.Sve this file also inside the folder skype

Now open terminal , change its directory to skype  Type

 [root@slackware] #cd /path/to/slackware/directory
[root@slackware:/skype]#sh skype.slackBuilds

change directory to /tmp

[root@slackware:/tmp]#installpkg skype-.xxxx.tgz

You are done.

4 comments:

  1. Hi, first of all thanks so much for your tutorials :)
    But i have a strange problem....i follow step by step your instructions and everything went fine...skype installation went fine with no errors...but when i try to open skype , well....simply nothing happen...i have icon in the start menu ( kde ) but nothing...it doesn't start. Some ideas ?

    Thx in advance ;)

    ReplyDelete