Hi Giovanni, Let me start a new thread so I don't hijack Peter's one. Here is what I get for ldd /usr/bin/skype. What is the deal with these libXv.so.1, libXss.so.1? linux-gate.so.1 => (0x00697000) libasound.so.2 => /lib/libasound.so.2 (0x008b7000) libXv.so.1 => not found libXss.so.1 => not found libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x00d02000) libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x0036b000) libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x00111000) libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x00119000) libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x00b77000) libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00122000) libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x009fb000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00eb0000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x001a2000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x002a5000) libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0x006bd000) libglib-2.0.so.0 => /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x002be000) librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x009a1000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00604000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x004e6000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x004fd000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00385000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00bcc000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x006c2000) libexpat.so.0 => /lib/libexpat.so.0 (0x00c2a000) libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x002ba000) libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x0087e000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00476000) Max