Which is the best version of skype to install in CentOS 5.3? skype.i586 2.0.0.72-fc5 from the skype repo or skype 2.1.0.47-fc10.i586.rpm from the 'skype for linux beta' downloads section of the skype website?
Andy
Andrew a écrit :
Which is the best version of skype to install in CentOS 5.3? skype.i586 2.0.0.72-fc5 from the skype repo or skype 2.1.0.47-fc10.i586.rpm from the 'skype for linux beta' downloads section of the skype website?
I'm using the static version, which works fine. I have an install script for it, see below. Download the tarball and put it in /tmp, then run the script as root. Only thing you'll miss is a correct .desktop file, which comes from another script here.
Cheers,
Niki Kovacs
#!/bin/bash # # install-skype.sh
set -x
VERSION=2.1.0.47
# Clean up old Skype install rm -rf /usr/share/skype rm -f /usr/bin/skype rm -f /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop rm -f /etc/dbus-1/system.d/skype.conf
cd /tmp
rm -rf skype_static-$VERSION
if [ ! -f skype_static-$VERSION.tar.bz2 ]; then wget -c http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-static/skype_static-$VERSION.tar... fi
tar xvjf skype_static-$VERSION.tar.bz2 cd skype_static-$VERSION
mkdir /usr/share/skype mv avatars/ icons/ lang/ sounds/ /usr/share/skype/ mv skype /usr/bin/ mv skype.conf /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ touch /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop
cd ../ rm -rf skype_static-$VERSION
exit
Niki Kovacs a écrit :
Andrew a écrit :
Which is the best version of skype to install in CentOS 5.3? skype.i586 2.0.0.72-fc5 from the skype repo or skype 2.1.0.47-fc10.i586.rpm from the 'skype for linux beta' downloads section of the skype website?
I'm using the static version, which works fine. I have an install script for it, see below. Download the tarball and put it in /tmp, then run the script as root.
... or, even better, just launch the script. Forgot I put that wget line in it.
:o)
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 00:24 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote:
Andrew a écrit :
Which is the best version of skype to install in CentOS 5.3? skype.i586 2.0.0.72-fc5 from the skype repo or skype 2.1.0.47-fc10.i586.rpm from the 'skype for linux beta' downloads section of the skype website?
I'm using the static version, which works fine. I have an install script for it, see below. Download the tarball and put it in /tmp, then run the script as root. Only thing you'll miss is a correct .desktop file, which comes from another script here.
Cheers,
Niki Kovacs
#!/bin/bash # # install-skype.sh
set -x
VERSION=2.1.0.47
# Clean up old Skype install rm -rf /usr/share/skype rm -f /usr/bin/skype rm -f /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop rm -f /etc/dbus-1/system.d/skype.conf
cd /tmp
rm -rf skype_static-$VERSION
if [ ! -f skype_static-$VERSION.tar.bz2 ]; then wget -c http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-static/skype_static-$VERSION.tar... fi
tar xvjf skype_static-$VERSION.tar.bz2 cd skype_static-$VERSION
mkdir /usr/share/skype mv avatars/ icons/ lang/ sounds/ /usr/share/skype/ mv skype /usr/bin/ mv skype.conf /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ touch /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop
cd ../ rm -rf skype_static-$VERSION
exit
Many thanks for that, it looks very useful. But may I just ask what's wrong with using yum install skype from the skype repo?
Andy
Andrew a écrit :
Many thanks for that, it looks very useful. But may I just ask what's wrong with using yum install skype from the skype repo?
I didn't know there was a Skype repo for CentOS. Some time ago Skype had RPMS for CentOS, but they seem to have been abandoned. As for the Fedora packages, well, Fedora is not CentOS. I do use Fedora packages from time to time, but then, I always take the SRPM and rebuild it on CentOS. Which isn't exactly feasible with a closed source app :o|
Cheers,
Niki
Many thanks for that, it looks very useful. But may I just ask what's wrong with using yum install skype from the skype repo?
The yum repo doesn't seem to be maintained anymore.
I use the latest static version on CentOS 5.4 x86_64 and it works fine. I just untar it in /opt, ln -s to /opt/skype and create a launcher on my Desktop.
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