On 10/18/2009 09:11 AM Lucian @ lastdot.org wrote: > 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 > > This one should work just fine: > > http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-static And it did! Thanks much.