Install Skype 4.3 on Fedora 21-20-centos-rhel-sl7-6.6

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This is guide, howto install Skype 4.3 in Fedora 21/20/19/18/17/16 on centos/red Hat (RHEL)/scientific Linux (SL) 7/6.6. This is actually easy process, but I won ' t use Skype own RPM package, which works only with Fedora 16+. Skype package also doesn ' t care about any needed dependencies on 64-bit (x86_64) systems Nor (32-bit) i686. This guide uses the Skype dynamic package and all dependencies are installed.

1. Install Skype 4.3 on Fedora 21/20/19/18 and centos/red Hat (RHEL) 7/6.6

1.1 Change Root User
Su-
# # OR # #
Sudo-i

1.2 Install needed repositories

Needed only on CENTOS/RHEL/SL

# # CentOS 7, Red Hat (RHEL) 7 and scientific Linux 7 #
Yum Localinstall http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm
Yum Localinstall http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-1.el7.nux.noarch.rpm


# # CentOS 6, Red Hat (RHEL) 6 and scientific Linux 6 #
Yum Localinstall http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

1.3 Install Needed Dependencies

The command may fail, but you can continue with the following
Yum install alsa-lib.i686 fontconfig.i686 freetype.i686 glib2.i686 libsm.i686 libxscrnsaver.i686 libXi.i686 libxrandr.i686 libxrender.i686 libxv.i686 libstdc++.i686 pulseaudio-libs.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 zlib.i686 qtwebkit.i686

Same command on multiple lines:

Yum install alsa-lib.i686 fontconfig.i686 freetype.i686 \
glib2.i686 libsm.i686 libxscrnsaver.i686 libxi.i686 \
libxrandr.i686 libxrender.i686 libxv.i686 libstdc++.i686 \
pulseaudio-libs.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 zlib.i686 qtwebkit.i686

Additional dependencies for CentOS 6/red Hat (RHEL) 6/scientific Linux (SL) 6

Yum Install libcanberra-gtk2.i686 gtk2-engines.i686 packagekit-gtk-module.i686

1.4 Download Skype 4.3 Dynamic

Cd/tmp

# # Skype 4.3 Dynamic for FEDORA/CENTOS/RHEL/SL #
wget--trust-server-names http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-dynamic

1.5 Extract Skype

Mkdir/opt/skype

# # Extract Skype 4.3 # #
Tar xvf skype-4.3*-c/opt/skype--strip-components=1

1.6 Create Launcher

Ln-s/opt/skype/skype.desktop/usr/share/applications/skype.desktop
Ln-s/opt/skype/icons/skypeblue_48x48.png/usr/share/icons/skype.png
Ln-s/opt/skype/icons/skypeblue_48x48.png/usr/share/pixmaps/skype.png

Touch/usr/bin/skype
chmod 755/usr/bin/skype

Open/usr/bin/skype with text editor and add following content:
Fedora/centos 7/red Hat (RHEL) 7/scientific Linux (SL) 7


#!/bin/sh
Export Skype_home= "/opt/skype"

$SKYPE _home/skype--resources= $SKYPE _home $*

CentOS 6/red Hat (RHEL) 6/scientific Linux (SL) 6


#!/bin/sh
Export Skype_home= "/opt/skype"
Export gtk2_rc_files= "/ETC/GTK-2.0/GTKRC"

$SKYPE _home/skype--resources= $SKYPE _home $*

If you are have problems to use command line editors, like Vi/vim, Nano, Emacs, Pico, Joe, etc. then copy and paste follow ing lines (exatcly) to terminal to Create/usr/bin/skype file.
Fedora/centos 7/red Hat (RHEL) 7/scientific Linux (SL) 7


Cat << EOF >/usr/bin/skype
#!/bin/sh
Export Skype_home= "/opt/skype"

\ $SKYPE _home/skype--resources=\ $SKYPE _home \$*
Eof

CentOS 6/red Hat (RHEL) 6/scientific Linux (SL) 6


Cat << EOF >/usr/bin/skype
#!/bin/sh
Export Skype_home= "/opt/skype"
Export gtk2_rc_files= "/ETC/GTK-2.0/GTKRC"

\ $SKYPE _home/skype--resources=\ $SKYPE _home \$*
Eof

2. Use Skype
2.1 Start Skype

From command line with skype command


[Root@localhost tmp]# Skype

Note: The following steps may be different. However, the lack of anything, yum what.

/usr/bin/skype:/opt/skype/skype:/lib/ld-linux.so.2:bad ELF interpreter: Without that file or directory
[Root@localhost tmp]# Yum Install glibc.i686

[Root@localhost tmp]# Skype
/opt/skype/skype:error while loading shared libraries:libxv.so.1:cannot open Shared object file:no such file or direct Ory

[Root@localhost tmp]# Yum Install libstdc++.so.6

[Root@localhost tmp]# Skype
/opt/skype/skype:error while loading shared libraries:libxv.so.1:cannot open Shared object file:no such file or direct Ory

[Root@localhost tmp]# Yum Install libxv.so.1

[Root@localhost tmp]# Skype
/opt/skype/skype:error while loading shared libraries:libxss.so.1:cannot open Shared object file:no such file or Direc Tory

[Root@localhost tmp]# Yum Install libxss.so.1

[Root@localhost tmp]# Skype
/opt/skype/skype:error while loading shared libraries:libqtdbus.so.4:cannot open Shared object file:no such file or di Rectory

[Root@localhost tmp]# Yum Install libqtdbus.so.4

[Root@localhost tmp]# Skype
/opt/skype/skype:error while loading shared libraries:libqtwebkit.so.4:cannot open Shared object file:no such file or Directory

[Root@localhost tmp]# Yum Install libqtwebkit.so.4

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Yum hint Another app is currently holding the Yum for it to exit

It is possible that the system auto upgrade is running and the Yum is in a locked state.
You can disable the Yum process by forcing:

# rm-f/var/run/yum.pid
Then you can use the Yum.