[CentOS] Skype For CentOS 6.4 (SOLVED)

Ljubomir Ljubojevic

centos at plnet.rs
Fri Jul 5 08:53:49 UTC 2013


On 06/17/2013 10:52 AM, Farkas Levente wrote:
> http://lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/6/
>
> On 06/17/2013 02:55 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
>> On 06/16/2013 05:03 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
>>> http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2012/install-skype-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel-scientific-linux-sl/
>>>
>>> this might be solution to problem..
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/6/17 Mark LaPierre <marklapier at aol.com>
>>>
>>>> On 06/16/2013 03:46 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:35:58 -0400
>>>>> Mark LaPierre wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hey all.  Does anyone know if there is a newer version of Skype than
>>>>>> skype-2.1.0.81 available for CentOS 32 bit?  Recent updates to Skype on
>>>>>> other platforms has been causing video connection issues in the last few
>>>>>> weeks.
>>>>>
>>>>>     http://download.skype.com/linux/skype_static-4.0.0.8.tar.bz2
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [mlapier at mushroom skype_staticQT-4.0.0.8]$ ./skype
>>>> ./skype: error while loading shared libraries: libtiff.so.4: cannot open
>>>> shared object file: No such file or directory
>>>> [mlapier at mushroom skype_staticQT-4.0.0.8]$
>>>>
>>>> yum --enablerepo=* --disablerepo=c6-media whatprovides */libtiff.so.4
>>>> No Matches found
>>>>
>>>> That's not a viable solution.  When I downloaded the bzip I found that I
>>>> had already tried that before.  I figured that was a bad sign.
>>
>> The link at the top of the page had the magic required to make it work.
>>
>> Thanks All!! ;-)
>>
>>
>

This package needed
export GTK2_RC_FILES="/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
to run properly (there was blank window).

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Ljubomir Ljubojevic
(Love is in the Air)
PL Computers
Serbia, Europe

StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant



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