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[kopete] skype

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Sunday, February 12th 2006, 9:37am

[kopete] skype

I tried to compile the skype plugin for kopete located at
http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kopete skype/
But I get a message that my dbus is too new:

DBus found, but is too new.
It is not supported by Skype neather by the skype plugin for Kopete
The plugin won't compile

I am using SUSE 10.0 and I surely do not want to downgrade my dbus-system. Anyone knows of another way to solve this problem?
Or is there perhaps another plugin for using skype via kopete?

Thank you.

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Wednesday, February 22nd 2006, 3:22pm

RE: [kopete] skype

i have the same problem :-( ... using debian testing/unstable
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Wednesday, February 22nd 2006, 4:48pm

RE: [kopete] skype

I cannot think of anything less dirty at the moment, but hack the configure.in.in file.

Replace

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if [test "$?" = "0"] ; then
  dbus_inc=NOT_FOUND
  dbus_too_new=true
  echo "Too new!!"
else
  #yeah, we found it
  dbus_inc=FOUND
fi

with

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#yeah, we found it
dbus_inc=FOUND

Then run

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$ make -f Makefile.cvs ; ./configure

and see if the configure passes. However, I cannot guarantee things will work in case you successfully compiled the addon :)
Bram Schoenmakers
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Wednesday, February 22nd 2006, 6:16pm

RE: [kopete] skype

Blame the Skype folks for this one.. We have to no choice but to use the dbus interfaces provided by them, and since they're for an older version, they won't work.

please don't hack anything to try to make it build. the best thing to do is to downgrade dbus. I imagine that breaks other things, so it's a bit of a catch 22
--Matt

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Sunday, March 5th 2006, 9:16am

Just for your information: I changed the configure.in.in file the way bram85 suggested. Configure then passes fine, but (as expected) make exits with some nice error messages. However, I wanted to try it, so I could report the results. ;)

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Friday, June 29th 2007, 2:03pm

There seems to be a new version of skype is on the way, just the other day a beta was added to the repositories. It's version 1.4.0.74 and the system requirements are:

Qt 4.2.1+
D-Bus 1.0.0
libsigc++ 2.0.2
libasound2 1.0.12

So this plugin should work again right?

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Friday, November 28th 2008, 4:08pm

Hello,
I fix broken dbus connection and I'm porting this plugin to Kopete KDE4.

For more info (and install steps) see
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90946#c55