Installing Skype on 64-bit Fedora 14

[Ankur Sinha]

On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 12:18 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote: 
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> I installed the skype RPM on my 64-bit Fedora 14 machine and ran into
> all kinds of problems with missing libs like:
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> skype: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> skype: error while loading shared libraries: libQtDBus.so.4: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
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> skype: error while loading shared libraries: libQtGui.so.4: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> The short answer for my system is:
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> yum install glibc.i686 alsa-lib.i686 libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686
> qt.i686 qt-x11.i686
> 
> yum install --nogpgcheck skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586.rpm
> 
> Done!
> 
> Hoping this is helpful...
> 
> - -- 
> Thomas


Hello,

Installation of skype is already properly documented here[1].

Thanks,
regards,
Ankur

[1] http://fedorasolved.org/Members/dcr226/installing-skype