On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 1:55 PM, ken <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote: > > I easily installed and used skype on my previous linux distro on this > same machine, but am having problems getting it to work on my relatively > new centos 5.3. > > I downloaded three versions of skype from their website: the two fedora > rpms wouldn't install, their error messages complaining that it needed > another package, a package which was already installed. (I figured it > had to be looking for that package in the wrong place... something I > couldn't do anything about.) > > So I downloaded the suse 10+ rpm and it installed just fine. But when I > ran it (/usr/bin/skype), it errored out also, saying > "/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not found (required by > /usr/bin/skype)". So I used yum to search for any glibc which remotely > corresponded to that glibc and got nothing. > > So is anybody running skype on 5.3? If so, how did you install it and > get it to work? > > > Thanks for the good tips. > > > -- > War is a failure of the imagination. > --William Blake > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > This one should work just fine: http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-static