[CentOS] Skype For CentOS 6.4

Sun Jun 16 21:36:26 UTC 2013
Mihai T. Lazarescu <mtlagm at gmail.com>

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 05:00:16PM -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:

> 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.

I installed Skype 4.0 RPM from the Nux! repo usng YUM:

    http://www.nux.ro/archive/2012/06/Skype_4_0_on_EL6__CentOS_Stella__ScientifixLinux__RHEL__PUIAS__update.html

Mihai