[CentOS] Skype and Sound

Fri Oct 19 18:30:31 UTC 2012
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs>

On 10/19/2012 08:21 PM, James B. Byrne wrote:
>
> On Fri, October 19, 2012 11:32, Nux! wrote:
>
>> James,
>>
>> It should just work. The only problem I had was switching from the
>> laptop's microphone to the one that came with my headphones since it's
>> more performant. I did this by selecting it in the sound preferences
>> (gnome-volume-control).
>> Also, make sure you have installed the 32 bit pulseaudio libs, if
>> you're on 64bit; or you can "yum install" this repo which will pull in
>> the required deps:
>> http://repo.fedoramd.org/mirrors/russianfedora/nonfree/el/updates/6/x86_64/skype-4.0.0.8-1.el6.R.i586.rpm
>
> Your package works fine.  Thank you very much.  I checked the
> dependencies against what was installed as x86_64 versions and cold
> find nothing missing.  Do you happen to know, or strongly suspect, why
> the 32 bit version works and the 64 bit version does not?
>

As I can see, only Ubuntu and debian have 64-bit versions of Skype. Have 
you found somewhere 64-bit version for fedora/EL?

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