can't find skype for Fedora 20

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Wed May 28 17:21:53 UTC 2014


On 05/28/2014 01:08 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 05/28/2014 09:58 AM, Robert Moskowitz issued this missive:
>> I have rpmfusion-free and rpmfusion-nonfree repos set up.  When I do a
>>
>> yum whatprovides skype
>>
>> I get No matches found.
>
> As far as I know, there is no Skype RPM for F20. You have to go to the
> skype website and install their latest. Looking at my F20 machines, I
> have skype-4.0.0.11-fc16.i586 installed both.

So what is all that lpf-skype cruft and it wanting to install things 
like lpf, fakeroot, rpm-build????, rpmdevtools? etc.

>
> Note that Skype is a 32-bit app, so you'll need some dual arch and
> compatibility stuff installed as well.

I am installing it on a i386 system.



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