On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:37 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

Well, at the urging of a friend who wants to talk face-to-face, I tried to install skype to my system at home (current CentOS 5.5). Got the fedora rpm; yum installed a library, then localinstalled skype, which is the current 2.1 beta.

ldd shows an entry to linux-gate, which I don't have installed (or at least rpm tells me I don't). I try to run skype, and it complains about the version of glibc, even though I do have libstdc++.so.6.

So, does anyone have any suggestions on a) how to get 2.1 beta working, or b) where I can find the *non* beta previous version...?

Try the static version. Here's the CentOS wiki:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Skype

Akemi

On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

ldd shows an entry to linux-gate, which I don't have installed (or at least rpm tells me I don't).

linux-gate is a virtual library that lives in memory and handles the sysenter and sysexit instructions. It doesn't actually exist in the filesystem.