No sound in Skype on Fedora 64-bit
jd1008
jd1008 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 00:08:58 UTC 2015
On 01/27/2015 04:53 PM, Jim Lewis wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
I am running Version 4.3.0.37 (32 bit) and running on fc21 64 bit.
It has he following dependencies:
Requires: config(skype) = 4.3.0.37-2.el6
Requires: libQtCore.so.4
Requires: libQtCore.so.4
Requires: libQtDBus.so.4
Requires: libQtDBus.so.4
Requires: libQtGui.so.4
Requires: libQtGui.so.4
Requires: libQtNetwork.so.4
Requires: libQtNetwork.so.4
Requires: libQtWebKit.so.4
Requires: libQtWebKit.so.4
Requires: libQtXml.so.4
Requires: libQtXml.so.4
Requires: libX11.so.6
Requires: libX11.so.6
Requires: libXext.so.6
Requires: libXext.so.6
Requires: libXss.so.1
Requires: libXss.so.1
Requires: libXv.so.1
Requires: libXv.so.1
Requires: libasound.so.2
Requires: libc.so.6
Requires: libc.so.6
Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)
Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2)
Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)
Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.2)
Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)
Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)
Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.7)
Requires: libdl.so.2
Requires: libdl.so.2
Requires: libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0)
Requires: libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1)
Requires: libgcc_s.so.1
Requires: libgcc_s.so.1
Requires: libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.0)
Requires: libgcc_s.so.1(GLIBC_2.0)
Requires: libm.so.6
Requires: libm.so.6
Requires: libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
Requires: libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
Requires: libpthread.so.0
Requires: libpthread.so.0
Requires: libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0)
Requires: libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.1)
Requires: libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2)
Requires: libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.3.2)
Requires: librt.so.1
Requires: librt.so.1
Requires: librt.so.1(GLIBC_2.2)
Requires: libstdc++.so.6
Requires: libstdc++.so.6
Requires: libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3)
Requires: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4)
Requires: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.9)
Requires: libwebkit-1.0.so.2
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