Skype 4 i Fedora 17

[Christopher Svanefalk]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:

> On 09/15/2012 08:09 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com<mailto:
> Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 09/15/2012 02:34 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
> >     > I should have read your specs more carefully before responding,
> apologies for that. There are some hacks needed to get Skype running under
> 64-bit, but this is obviously not your problem.
> >     >
> >     > Have you tried starting Skype from the terminal? It should give
> you some indicators to why it is failing. Apart from that, you can also
> examine the logs (although someone else more knowledgeable  would have to
> tell you exactly which ones).
> >
> >     [egreshko at meimei ~]$ rpm -q skype
> >     skype-4.0.0.8-fc16.i586
> >
> >     [egreshko at meimei ~]$ uname -r
> >     3.5.3-1.fc17.x86_64
> >
> >     No problems, no hacks....
> >
> >
> > Heh, I am still stuck in the days when there was only a 32-bit version
> (and beta at that)...need to do some catching up it seems, thanks for the
> headsup.
> >
>
> Please note that skype is a 32-bit application....
>
> [egreshko at meimei system]$ file /usr/bin/skype
> /usr/bin/skype: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
> (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32,
> BuildID[sha1]=0x1a3a82f020f7a59612a2362d2bf89f51071a92ad, stripped
>
>
My attention span is at an all time low today it seems, so I will stop
posting. All the best.


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-- 
Best,

Christopher Svanefalk
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