[CentOS] skype on 5.7

Mon Jan 16 11:36:40 UTC 2012
John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com>

From: ken <gebser at mousecar.com>

> Earlier last year I had a 5.7 system running with skype.  It worked 
> fine.  Later last year I had to reinstall my entire system.  I didn't 
> install skype then.  Yesterday I tried to find a version of skype to use 
> on 5.7, but couldn't find one on skype.com; there's no version for 
> RH/CentOS 5.7.  Does anyone know where a working skype can be found?


I use this old version on my CentOS 5.7 i386:
wget http://download.skype.com/linux/skype_static-2.2.0.35.tar.bz2
But I do not remember what specific packages it needed, if any...

JD