Skype working on Ubuntu and not working on FC(5|6)

[David Fletcher]

On Thursday 02 November 2006 17:23, Leo wrote:
> On Tue, 31/10/06, Przemyslaw Gawronski wrote:
> > Hi, for some time I haven't managed to get Skype to work under FC5. On
> > another partition I've installed FC6 and also no success. Yet on another
> > partition I've got Ubuntu installed and there Skype worked out of the
> > box. I've setup everything in gnome-volume-control exactly the same as
> > it is in Ubuntu, but still it isn't working :(
> >
> > Of course in both setups I us ALSA.
> >
> > I've attached the output of amixer.
> >
> > I would be very thankful for suggestions!
>
> I use skype from http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/ and never
> have a problem.
>
> --
> Leo


I put:-

[skype]
name=Skype Repository
baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/3/updates/i586/
gpgkey=http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc


into

/etc/yum.repos.d/skype.repo

then used

yum install skype

Works fine and automatically updates.

Dave F

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