Most current Skype for fedora 17 ?

[Cristian Sava]

On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 13:01 -0700, Jack Craig wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks at alldigital.com>
> wrote:
>         On 10/14/2013 12:16 PM, Carlos "casep" Sepulveda issued this
>         missive:
>         
>                 On 14 October 2013 16:07, Jack Craig
>                 <jack.craig.aptos at gmail.com> wrote:
>                         Is there an updated version of Skype that
>                         would work on F17 ?
Look at this skype.spec and build your own rpm!

# From https://www.timj.co.uk/uploads/specs/skype.spec
# See this page please http://www.timj.co.uk/2012/07/skype-4-on-rhel6/
# You also need http://www.timj.co.uk/uploads/rpmsources/skype.desktop
#
# Stripping the Skype binary breaks it
%define __spec_install_post /bin/true

%global instdir %{_datadir}/skype

Name:           skype
Version:        4.2.0.11
Release:        1%{?dist}
Summary:        Skype Internet telephony and instant messaging client

Group:          Applications/Communications
License:        Proprietary
URL:            http://www.skype.com/
Source0:        http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-%{version}.tar.bz2
Source1:        skype.desktop

BuildArch:	x86_64

%description
Skype is an instant messaging and telephony client which allows
communication
with other users by voice, video and text.

%prep
%setup -q

# Fix end-of-line encoding
sed -i 's/\r//' LICENSE

%install
install -d -m 0755 %{buildroot}%{_bindir}
cp skype %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/

desktop-file-install --dir=%{buildroot}%{_datadir}/applications
%{SOURCE1}

install -d -m 0755 %{buildroot}%{instdir}

install -d -m 0755 %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/dbus-1/system.d
install -m 0644 skype.conf %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/dbus-1/system.d

install -d -m 0755 %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/prelink.conf.d
echo "-b %{_bindir}/skype" >
%{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/prelink.conf.d/skype.conf

for subdir in avatars lang sounds; do
    install -d -m 0755 %{buildroot}%{instdir}/$subdir
    cp -p $subdir/* %{buildroot}%{instdir}/$subdir/
done

# Sort out icons
for i in 16 32 48; do
    mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_iconsdir}/hicolor/${i}x${i}/apps
    install -m 0644 icons/SkypeBlue_${i}x${i}.png
%{buildroot}%{_iconsdir}/hicolor/${i}x${i}/apps/skype.png
done

# See
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Icon_Cache
%post
/bin/touch --no-create %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor &>/dev/null || :

%postun
if [ $1 -eq 0 ] ; then
    /bin/touch --no-create %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor &>/dev/null
    /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache -f %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor
&>/dev/null || :
fi

%posttrans
/usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache -f %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor &>/dev/null
|| :


%files
%defattr(-,root,root,-)
%doc LICENSE README third-party_attributions.txt
%{_bindir}/skype
%{_datadir}/applications/skype.desktop
%{_iconsdir}/hicolor/*/apps/skype.png
%{instdir}
%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/dbus-1/system.d/skype.conf
%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/prelink.conf.d/skype.conf


%changelog
* Sat May 23 2013 Cristian Sava <csava at central.ucv.ro> 4.2.0.11
- Build for Fedora 19 x86_64 (i686 - cause of internals and
dependencies)
* Tue Jul 24 2012 Tim Jackson <tim at timj.co.uk> 4.0.0.8-1
- Initial build of Skype 4


Good luck,
C. Sava