How to install Skype on to Fedora 13 x86_64

Installing skype on Fedora 13 x86_64 is quite messy. I have to install all i686 dependencies packages in order to make skype run.

To put it simple, you can perform it in a single commandline to install skype onto your Fedora Linux Machine after STEP-1 by issuing below command:

[tj@localhost ~]$ su -c ‘yum –nogpgchek localinstall skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586.rpm glibc.i686 alsa-lib.i686 libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686′

All you need to do is by performing STEP-3 to check if all dependencies is satisfied. Otherwise, perform STEP-3, STEP-4, and STEP-5 repeatedly until all dependencies is satisfied.

1. Get the latest rpm version of skype here

http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-fc10

I got skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586.rpm

2. [tj@localhost ~]$ su -c ‘yum –nogpgchek localinstall skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586.rpm’

3. [tj@localhost ~]$ skype
bash: /usr/bin/skype: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory

4. [tj@localhost ~]$ yum whatprovides ld-linux.so.2
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
glibc-2.12-1.i686 : The GNU libc libraries
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Other       : ld-linux.so.2

5. [tj@localhost ~]$ su -c ‘yum install glibc.i686′

6. [tj@localhost ~]$ skype
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

7. [tj@localhost ~]$ yum whatprovides libasound.so.2
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
alsa-lib-1.0.23-1.fc13.i686 : The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA)
: library
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Other       : libasound.so.2

8. [tj@localhost ~]$ su -c ‘yum install alsa-lib.i686′

9. [tj@localhost ~]$ skype
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

10. [tj@localhost ~]$ yum whatprovides libXv.so.1
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
libXv-1.0.5-1.fc13.i686 : X.Org X11 libXv runtime library
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Other       : libXv.so.1

11. [tj@localhost ~]$ su -c ‘yum install libXv.i686′

12. [tj@localhost ~]$ skype
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

13. [tj@localhost ~]$ yum whatprovides libXss.so.1
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
libXScrnSaver-1.2.0-1.fc12.i686 : X.Org X11 libXss runtime library
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Other       : libXss.so.1

14. [tj@localhost ~]$ su -c ‘yum install libXScrnSaver.i686′

15. [tj@localhost ~]$ skype
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libQtDBus.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

16. [tj@localhost ~]$ yum whatprovides libQtDBus.so.4
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
1:qt-4.6.2-16.fc13.i686 : Qt toolkit
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Other       : libQtDBus.so.4

17. [tj@localhost ~]$ su -c ‘yum install qt.i686′

18. [tj@localhost ~]$ skype
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libQtGui.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

19. [tj@localhost ~]$ yum whatprovides libQtGui.so.4
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
1:qt-x11-4.6.2-16.fc13.i686 : Qt GUI-related libraries
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Other       : libQtGui.so.4

20. [tj@localhost ~]$ su -c ‘yum install qt-x11.i686′

Please consider to use Ekiga ( http://www.ekiga.net ) as Skype replacement.

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~ by yunustj on July 18, 2010.