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In this howto i will describe how to install Skype on Fedora 13 64bit. As Skype dont provide 64bit version of Skype for Fedora. We can use i586 version 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.i686 qt-x11.i686 pulseaudio-libs.i686 pulseaudio-libs-glib2.i686 alsa-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
Run it from Applicaition or command line and bravo its running 
Please comment for any questions.
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41 Responses to “How To Install Skype on Fedora 13 (64bit)”
Thx! Simple, functional
Thanks brother, it was really to the point.
Awesome.. Thank you much,…
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Thank you very much for these details.
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nice one, thanks!
It does work .. thanks.
This worked for me also. Thanks for saving me time on resolving the libasound2.so errors. The alsa-plugins module is what seems to have fixed that.
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Thanks for sharing such useful info.
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Many thanks! I’d almost given up all hopes on using Skype under Fedora 14 x64 but following your instructions, it now works! I did have to configure my input settings under Gnome as the test call didn’t work at first, but now all is fine. One more reason to ditch Windows. Do hope they’ll work on a native x64 version though.
Works great on
Fedora 14 64-bit with
Skype 2.2.0.25 fedora i586
Thanks!
Second the previous comment. Worked like a charm with -
Fedora 14 64-bit
Skype 2.2.0.25
Great how-to!
hey i have installed skye according to above instructions but i am not able to do video chat. Can anybody help me out of this mesh???
Works for me on
Fedora 15 x64
Skype 2.2
Thanks
error: can’t create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock (permission denied)
what can i do?
@lil: you need to confirm that no rpm command is been in run when you are using yum. Because at one time you can issue one rpm command to rpm database. Another issue is that are you root user while executing yum command ?
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Regards,
thanks guy. its really helpful. great effort continue
hello, i installed skype. my micro phone is not working. headphone is working. can you help me. i check test call and audio setting. but i did’t got it. my operating system is fodera 13 (64 bit)
Audio input (mic) no sound fix:
Fedora 13, Fedora 14, Fedora 15
In addition to the above, I had to install Pulse Audio Volume Control
sudo yum install pavucontrol
Within Pulse Audio Volume Control, select the Input Device tab – Unlock the channels, and turn one Left to 100% and Right to 0%.
I don’t know what PulseAudio mutes the mic if both channels set to 100%.
Thanks,it has helped me out
than you
Thank you very much ,I try it so long time and you recommend that easy.
Thx man, i love u sooo much!!!!!
Thanks, it made me hope, just it did not fix the microphone issue I am attempting to solve
GGF
It still works on Fedora 16, too. All the other advice I found online just told me to install libXScrnSaver, which isn’t enough by itself to fix the problem.
other way is via its repository:
1. create file skype.repo on folder /etc/yum.repos.d/
2. edit the file and the content of file skype.repo have to:
[skype]
name=Skype Repository
baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586/
gpgkey=http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc
3. After save you need to running the command:
yum install skype
Good luck
Thank you very much!
It was so useful
Thanks….
Still works great…
error: open of skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586.rpm failed: No such file or directory
what can i do???
Все отлично ! =) It’s work!
Thanks!
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