Skype 4 i Fedora 17

[Ed Greshko]

On 09/15/2012 08:09 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
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> On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com <mailto:Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>> wrote:
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>     On 09/15/2012 02:34 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
>     > I should have read your specs more carefully before responding, apologies for that. There are some hacks needed to get Skype running under 64-bit, but this is obviously not your problem.
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>     > Have you tried starting Skype from the terminal? It should give you some indicators to why it is failing. Apart from that, you can also examine the logs (although someone else more knowledgeable  would have to tell you exactly which ones).
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>     [egreshko at meimei ~]$ rpm -q skype
>     skype-4.0.0.8-fc16.i586
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>     [egreshko at meimei ~]$ uname -r
>     3.5.3-1.fc17.x86_64
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>     No problems, no hacks....
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> Heh, I am still stuck in the days when there was only a 32-bit version (and beta at that)...need to do some catching up it seems, thanks for the headsup.
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Please note that skype is a 32-bit application....

[egreshko at meimei system]$ file /usr/bin/skype
/usr/bin/skype: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=0x1a3a82f020f7a59612a2362d2bf89f51071a92ad, stripped


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