No sound in Skype on Fedora 64-bit (SOLVED)

[jd1008]

You're welcome!

On 01/27/2015 06:11 PM, Jim Lewis wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>    Okay from this I determined you were saying I didn't need the
> libv4l.i686 component. I tried the yum install without it and WOW, it
> now works with sound! Very nice and thank you.
>
> Jim Lewis
>
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