Skype on Fedora 14

[Hüvely Balázs]

Skype works on 64 bit system for me. I use fedora 14 and 15 too. the
only problem, when you install skype it cannot use the 64 bit libraries.
so you need to get the 32 bit libs which needs by skype.

you can simply install it with the following rules:
open a terminal
type skype and press enter.
There will be error messages that what file is missing.
try a yum whatprovides xy.so
you get a list, which package is contain the missing .so file.
after you get the name of the package, tra to install the 32bit version
of the package: yum install -y packagename_and_version.i686
after it's done, repeat the procedure above again.
skype needs many of libs and so files, so be patient.
maybe, you will need the rpmfusion free and rpmfusion nonfree
repositories enabled.

I hope your success.

these packages need to be installed (but it's for fedora 13...), and
pulseaudio too.
glibc-2.12-3.i686 alsa-lib-1.0.23-1.fc13.i686 libXv-1.0.5-1.fc13.i686
libXScrnSaver-1.2.0-1.fc12.i686 libQtDBus.so.4 qt-4.6.3-8.fc13.i686
qt-x11-4.6.3-8.fc13.i686

cheers: Balazs

On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 00:47 -0700, Mike Dwiggins wrote:
> On 6/27/2011 12:29 AM, Nicolae Ghimbovschi wrote:
> > Skype works fine for me on Fedora 15 86_x64 and it was working on F14.
> >
> > In case you are using the dynamic version of Skype.
> > I think it needs some extra 32bit libraries to work.
> >
> > as root:
> >
> > yum -y install pulseaudio-libs.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686
> > libv4l.i686   libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 dbus-qt.i686 qt.i686
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:23, Mike Dwiggins<mike at azdwiggins.com>  wrote:
> >> Has anyone had any luck running Skype on Fedora 14 86_x64.  It installs
> >> just fine but, when I try to launch it nothing happens!
> >>
> >> I get nothing in messages or demesg to show it even attempted to
> >> launch!  Is it like Flash and needs to be wrapped in order to work?  If
> >> so how?
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
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> Tried your suggestion, still no luck!  Also still no apparent results in 
> messages or dmseg!
>