[CentOS] Installing Skype in CentOS (4.4)

Mon Oct 22 00:09:35 UTC 2007
Steven Vishoot <sir_funzone at yahoo.com>

--- Andrew Allen <andy.allen at virgin.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 17:56 -0700, Steven Vishoot
> wrote:
> > --- Andrew Allen <andy.allen at virgin.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm trying to install Skype on a CentOS 4.4
> system
> > > and I've followed the
> > > instructions on the Skype website at
> > >
> >
>
http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/repositories.html
> > > but when I run yum install skype it fails with a
> > > whole string of error
> > > messages, ending with 
> > > Error: failure:
> > > RPMS/libsigc++20-2.0.17-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm from
> > > rpmforge:
> > > [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
> > > 
> > > Has anybody managed to install skype
> successfully -
> > > if so, how please?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Andy
> > > 
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> > You can try yum clean all and retry yum install.
> Just
> > a thought.
> > 
> > Steven
> >  
> > 
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> Thanks Steven,
> After I did yum clean all, yum install skype got a
> lot further and
> looked as if it was going to work! But then it
> failed on
> 
> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: libQtCore.so.4 is needed
> by package skype
> Error: Missing Dependency: qt4-x11 >= 4.2 is needed
> by package skype
> Error: Missing Dependency: libQtGui.so.4 is needed
> by package skype
> Error: Missing Dependency: libQtDBus.so.4 is needed
> by package skype
> Error: Missing Dependency:
> libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.4) is needed by
> package skype
> Error: Missing Dependency: libQtNetwork.so.4 is
> needed by package skype
> Error: Missing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is
> needed by package
> skype
> 
> So how do I resolve this missing dependency problem
> using yum please?
> 
> Andy
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it looks like you need qt4.2 or higher, but i do not
know how that is going to affect the rest of your
system if you install that package.

Steven
 

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