How to install Skype On Fedora

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How to install Skype On Fedora

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Thebest way to install any software on Fedora is to install it from itsrepository. Now who don’t know what repository is. Here is the littledefinition of Repository.

Software Repository : A software repository is a storage locationfrom which software packages may be retrieved and installed on a computer.

Now you need to do is make a file named skype.repo.To make the file run # touch (write the name of the file, for examplein this case skype.repo). So the command in this case will be# touch skype.repobut for this, you need to get into the directory where you will create this file, for this run this command.# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ and then# touch skype.repoIf you get a permission denied message, then youneed to get login via “su” user and add following content to the file.Given command open the file.#gedit skype.repoCopy and paste the following content to the file.[skype]name=Skype Repositorybaseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586/gpgkey=http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.ascsave and close the file and run the following command.# yum install skypeif you get the message like : Package skype* is not signed, use following command.# yum –nogpgcheck install skypeInstalled:  skype* Complete! means your installation is complete. You are ready to run skype now. To run Skype go toApplications > Internet > Skypevia : Go2linux.org

Read more: http://www.atcrux.com/2010/01/30/how-to-install-skype-on-fedora-2/#ixzz14JkmysvC

  • How To Install Skype on Fedora 13 (64bit)

Inthis howto i will describe how to install Skype on Fedora 13 64bit. AsSkype dont provide 64bit version of Skype for Fedora. We can use i586version of Skype and to achieve this we need to install i686 libraries.This howto can be used to install Skype on 64bit Fedora 10 – 11 – 12 –13.

1) Install Pre-Requisite i686 Packages.

Pre-requisite contain pulse audio because of to use call in/out.

yum -y install libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 qt.i686qt-x11.i686 pulseaudio-libs.i686 pulseaudio-libs-glib2.i686alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686

2) Download Skype i586 (fedora10+)

wget http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586.rpm

3) Install Skype

rpm -ivh skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586.rpm

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