Skype - loading software

New to LINUX on my HP 2133 Mini Note - trying to load Skype with OpenSUSE 10+ download from Skype website and receiving message:

Unresolved dependencies: Installing skype-2.0.0.72-suse.i586[Local packages]
There are no installable providers of libQtDBus.so.4 for skype.i586[Local packages]

I have no idea what any of this means - it is more opaque than MS messages! Any help appreciated or I'm off to get XP loaded - at least I knew what I didn't know - if you know what I mean..

Thanks, John

Mmm, never tried Skype .. and my experience of trying OpenSUSE was that it simply wouldn't run on my laptop.

Have you tried Ubuntu?

If Ubuntu is another version of Linux then no I haven't and probably won't - whilst I like the idea of sticking it to MS I realise I'm not literate enough or interested enough to spend days try to set things up. I'll probably load XP like most buyers of this machine seem to. At least I'll know what to expect!

Just found out there are no drivers for my integrated camera - HP seem to think I signed up to beta test their new machine and find things that don't work...bizarre.

In the meantime if anyone knows of a multi-platform IRC chat application that will work with SUSE then I'd like to know...Xchat seems to only supports Fedora...

Thanks for replying anyway!

Hi, XChat works on Linux ..

Personally I've used it on Fedora, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Mandriva and Redhat.
(and XChat is by far the best I've seen...)

Incidentally, I tend to think of Skype as a bit of a "Windows toy" .. I know there's a huge following, but the Linux alternatives sort of wipe the floor with it .. albeit they tend to be aimed more at business users ... they're still free.

We run all our [VoIP] phones through a virtualised asterisk exchange ..

Mmmm thanks Gareth when I went to the website I couldn't see anything that would work with SUSE - maybe I didn't look hard enough...  Mind you if I had XChat it would have limited use as the integrated camera doesn't have a driver and I haven't yet found a third party driver for my Creative webcam...because Creative doesn't support LINUX directly....

Having to look for everything on the web is a  problem in itself.  Like today I plugged in an HP printer - the driver wasn't  there and I was off on a web  chase trying to find  drivers from  third party sites  because HP doesn't support LINUX directly (even though this HP machine was pre-loaded with LINUX by - you guessed it - HP).  OK they are probably there but this machine is a tool not an passtime.

Anyway enough moaning about LINUX - I'm just frustrated by the bits missing from this otherwise good HP machine -  LINUX is just an inconvenient straw...

If you or anyone knows of a site that has an XChat application that works with SUSE10 that'd be a great....I'll give it a go and try and try and find out why the cognoscenti  like LINUX...

PS: I can understand VoIP but what the heck is a virtualised asterisk exchange?!  It's ok  I probably don't need to know....    ;~}