[CentOS] Skype and Sound

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

On 10/19/2012 08:35 PM, Nux! wrote:
> On 19.10.2012 19:30, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>> On 10/19/2012 08:21 PM, James B. Byrne wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, October 19, 2012 11:32, Nux! wrote:
<snip>
>>>
>>> Your package works fine.  Thank you very much.  I checked the
>>> dependencies against what was installed as x86_64 versions and cold
>>> find nothing missing.  Do you happen to know, or strongly suspect,
>>> why
>>> the 32 bit version works and the 64 bit version does not?
>>>
>>
>> As I can see, only Ubuntu and debian have 64-bit versions of Skype.
>> Have
>> you found somewhere 64-bit version for fedora/EL?
>
> There is no 64bit version of Skype.
> The Ubuntu one is a fake 64bit package btw, all it contains is the same
> lousy i586 binary, that's why we need the 32bit version of the libs.
> The RPM from Russianfedora differs from the official one, it actually
> installs a statically linked binary which seems more stable.
>
> HTH
>

Ahh, so Russians did for 4.0 what I did for 2.x for EL 5.x in my own 
repository. Good.

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