No sound in Skype on Fedora 64-bit

[Jim Lewis]

Hello everyone,

  I realize this has probably been asked before but I am somewhat new to
this group. I wanted to try out Skype so installed lpf-skype. Everything
went fine. The sound test didn't play any sounds, but I can connect and
even see the other person so that's cool. No, I did not expect it to get
this far :).

  I researched this sound issue and found that it can possibly be solved
by installing some 32-bit components:

  yum -y install libv4l.i686 pulseaudio-libs.i686
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686

  However, when I ran this I got the dreaded:

Error:  Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root
       cause is something else and multilib version checking is just
       pointing out that there is a problem. Eg.:

         1. You have an upgrade for libv4l which is missing some
            dependency that another package requires. Yum is trying to
            solve this by installing an older version of libv4l of the
            different architecture. If you exclude the bad architecture
            yum will tell you what the root cause is (which package
            requires what). You can try redoing the upgrade with
            --exclude libv4l.otherarch ... this should give you an error
            message showing the root cause of the problem.

         2. You have multiple architectures of libv4l installed, but
            yum can only see an upgrade for one of those architectures.
            If you don't want/need both architectures anymore then you
            can remove the one with the missing update and everything
            will work.

         3. You have duplicate versions of libv4l installed already.
            You can use "yum check" to get yum show these errors.

       ...you can also use --setopt=protected_multilib=false to remove
       this checking, however this is almost never the correct thing to
       do as something else is very likely to go wrong (often causing
       much more problems).

       Protected multilib versions: libv4l-1.6.2-1.fc21.i686 !=
libv4l-1.6.0-1.fc21.x86_64


    I understand most of this, I would just like some advice on what the
best solution is.

    Of course the BEST solution would be to have a 64-bit version of Skype
for Fedora. Not sure why that is taking so long. Does someone just
need to volunteer to do the port? If it's written in C I'll do it.



Jim Lewis