No sound in Skype on Fedora 64-bit (SOLVED)

[Jim Lewis]

>
> On 01/27/2015 04:53 PM, Jim Lewis wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>>    I realize this has probably been asked before but I am somewhat new
>> to
>> this group. I wanted to try out Skype so installed lpf-skype. Everything
>> went fine. The sound test didn't play any sounds, but I can connect and
>> even see the other person so that's cool. No, I did not expect it to get
>> this far :).
>>
>>    I researched this sound issue and found that it can possibly be
>> solved
>> by installing some 32-bit components:
>>
>>    yum -y install libv4l.i686 pulseaudio-libs.i686
>> alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686
>>
>>    However, when I ran this I got the dreaded:
>>
>> Error:  Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root
>>         cause is something else and multilib version checking is just
>>         pointing out that there is a problem. Eg.:
>>
>>           1. You have an upgrade for libv4l which is missing some
>>              dependency that another package requires. Yum is trying to
>>              solve this by installing an older version of libv4l of the
>>              different architecture. If you exclude the bad architecture
>>              yum will tell you what the root cause is (which package
>>              requires what). You can try redoing the upgrade with
>>              --exclude libv4l.otherarch ... this should give you an
>> error
>>              message showing the root cause of the problem.
>>
>>           2. You have multiple architectures of libv4l installed, but
>>              yum can only see an upgrade for one of those architectures.
>>              If you don't want/need both architectures anymore then you
>>              can remove the one with the missing update and everything
>>              will work.
>>
>>           3. You have duplicate versions of libv4l installed already.
>>              You can use "yum check" to get yum show these errors.
>>
>>         ...you can also use --setopt=protected_multilib=false to remove
>>         this checking, however this is almost never the correct thing to
>>         do as something else is very likely to go wrong (often causing
>>         much more problems).
>>
>>         Protected multilib versions: libv4l-1.6.2-1.fc21.i686 !=
>> libv4l-1.6.0-1.fc21.x86_64
>>
>>
>>      I understand most of this, I would just like some advice on what
>> the
>> best solution is.
>>
>>      Of course the BEST solution would be to have a 64-bit version of
>> Skype
>> for Fedora. Not sure why that is taking so long. Does someone just
>> need to volunteer to do the port? If it's written in C I'll do it.

>>
>> Jim Lewis
>>

> I am running Version 4.3.0.37 (32 bit) and running on fc21 64 bit.
> It has he following dependencies:
>
> Requires:      config(skype) = 4.3.0.37-2.el6
> Requires:      libQtCore.so.4
> Requires:      libQtCore.so.4
> Requires:      libQtDBus.so.4
> Requires:      libQtDBus.so.4
> Requires:      libQtGui.so.4
> Requires:      libQtGui.so.4
> Requires:      libQtNetwork.so.4
> Requires:      libQtNetwork.so.4
> Requires:      libQtWebKit.so.4
> Requires:      libQtWebKit.so.4
> Requires:      libQtXml.so.4
> Requires:      libQtXml.so.4
> Requires:      libX11.so.6
> Requires:      libX11.so.6
> Requires:      libXext.so.6
> Requires:      libXext.so.6
> Requires:      libXss.so.1
> Requires:      libXss.so.1
> Requires:      libXv.so.1
> Requires:      libXv.so.1
> Requires:      libasound.so.2
> Requires:      libc.so.6
> Requires:      libc.so.6
> Requires:      libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
> Requires:      libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
> Requires:      libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)
> Requires:      libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2)
> Requires:      libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)
> Requires:      libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.2)
> Requires:      libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)
> Requires:      libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)
> Requires:      libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.7)
> Requires:      libdl.so.2
> Requires:      libdl.so.2
> Requires:      libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0)
> Requires:      libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1)
> Requires:      libgcc_s.so.1
> Requires:      libgcc_s.so.1
> Requires:      libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.0)
> Requires:      libgcc_s.so.1(GLIBC_2.0)
> Requires:      libm.so.6
> Requires:      libm.so.6
> Requires:      libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
> Requires:      libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
> Requires:      libpthread.so.0
> Requires:      libpthread.so.0
> Requires:      libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0)
> Requires:      libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.1)
> Requires:      libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2)
> Requires:      libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.3.2)
> Requires:      librt.so.1
> Requires:      librt.so.1
> Requires:      librt.so.1(GLIBC_2.2)
> Requires:      libstdc++.so.6
> Requires:      libstdc++.so.6
> Requires:      libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3)
> Requires:      libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4)
> Requires:      libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.9)
> Requires:      libwebkit-1.0.so.2
>
>

  Okay from this I determined you were saying I didn't need the
libv4l.i686 component. I tried the yum install without it and WOW, it
now works with sound! Very nice and thank you.

Jim Lewis