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How to install skype on fedora 18

When you try to install skype using yum, you might get warnings/error or message as dependencies missing.

For this you must know that skype is a 32 bit application. That means u need some 32 bit libs required for this setup, In this quick tip i will show you how to install skype on Fedora 18 on 64bit.

 # cat /etc/issue

    Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow)

 # uname -a

Linux localhost.localdomain 3.8.6-203.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Apr 9 19:33:01 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
This above information is just to check or know our kernal is 64 bit or 32 bit. From the above output it is very clear that I use 64
bit kernal.

Installing Dependencies

 # yum install alsa-lib.i686 libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 qtwebkit-2.2.2-2.fc18.i686

Installing Skype using rpm

 # rpm -ivh skype-4.1.0.20-fedora.i586.rpm

Download the rpm from skype.com and install it using by using the above command.

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