/tags/skype/Recent content in Skype on LifeHugoen-usMon, 13 Jul 2015 20:58:00 +0530/post/2015/2015-07-13-lync-on-linux/Mon, 13 Jul 2015 20:58:00 +0530/post/2015/2015-07-13-lync-on-linux/<p>If you are looking to run Microsoft Lync (aka Skype for Business) on Linux, you&rsquo;re in luck: <a href="http://fisil.com/">Fisil</a> maintains a Linux client hosted at <a href="http://tel.red/">tel.red</a>.</p> <p>However, I ran into an issue running the client on Fedora 23 (Rawhide), as the Sky package bundles its own older X11 libraries:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span style="display:flex;"><span>$ sky </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>/opt/sky_linux/sky: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libXxf86vm.so.1: undefined symbol: _XEatDataWords </span></span></code></pre></div><p><code>_XEatDataWords</code> was added to fix an upstream X.Org vulnerability (<a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXxf86vm/commit/id=284a88e21fc05a63466115b33efa411c60d988c9">commit details</a>). The workaround is to preload your distribution&rsquo;s native <code>libX11</code> library:</p>