skype and chromium are broken

[ashtonford]

Hi new here just installed salix mate today mostly everything is working but skype and chromium any help would be greatfull

[mimosa]

When you say not working ....

Do search the Salix forum for these too, if you haven't already.

I'm not sure but I think these may be available from Sourcery / slapt-src (q.v. in the Startup Guide). But maybe that was what you tried.

Anyway, welcome to Salix

[kcirick]

Hello...

You need more details on what exactly isn't working... Try opening skype/chromium from the terminal and post any error messages you get back.

One guess: Are you using 64bit version? If you are, then Skype won't work unless you install multilib (Search through documentation on how to do this), because Skype is a 32-bit software.

I don't know about chromium...

[RandyNose]

I tried to get Chromium and Rhythmbox installed via Sourcery, and they didn't compile. I'll have to hunt down the log files, for an exact issue with each, but I do know that libpeas didn't install because it was looking for gkt-doc, and I didn't see gtk-doc in either GSlapt or Sourcery.

- I'd like to figure out how to get things installed from Slackbuild.org too, so if I run into problems, I can figure them out, or install from there. I've been in the Linux Mint world, and it's not so CLI centric.

[mimosa]

I don't know whether this may help:

http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=2795

[witek]

Try downloading from here:

http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-1 ... ork/skype/
http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-1 ... /chromium/

[Wolven]

Hi.

I had to install mozilla-nss and yasm in order to get Chromium (Slackbuild from SBo) to compile (still compiling) on a rather fresh Salix64 14.0 install. There might be other missing deps for you as well, as I've installed a few additional packages to the system.