[CentOS] Skype on CentOS 6.5

Tue Aug 19 02:05:27 UTC 2014
Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org>


On 08/18/2014 08:09 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> Hey Y'all,
> 
> About a week ago my Skype installation stopped working.  I can start it up
> but I can't log on.  Does this have something to do with the recent update
> to LibC?  Is there a repo som where that has the latest version of Skype
> for CentOS 6.5?

No. This is because Microsoft dropped support for older versions of Skype.



> When I go to the Skype web site I see that there is a version several
> versions newer available for RPM based Linux but that one won't even start.
> 
> Can anyone offer some sound advice to getting my Skype running again?

Did you try the directions on the wiki?

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Skype


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