FC 20 and new skype?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2014-08-09 at 22:03 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> It depends how you installed the previous version. In my case, I
> downloaded the Fedora 16 rpm (it was for i586 or something...) from
> the
> Skype website, did a yum localinstall ./skype-<whatever>.rpm, and yum
> took care of everything. After that, version 4.3 Just Works(tm).
> 
> The point here is that I have previously used the same method to
> install v4.2, so it got upgraded automatically. If you installed the
> old
> version by some other method, like unpacking the tarball into /opt,
> you
> have to remove it manually.
> 
> // As a side note, this kind of situation is a textbook example why
> rpm
> is preferred over tarballs... //

+1

Slightly OT: does anyone know if free group video works with the Linux
version of Skype?

poc