[CentOS] Skype on CentOS 6.5 (SOLVED)

Thu Aug 21 03:06:25 UTC 2014
Mark LaPierre <marklapier at gmail.com>

On 08/18/14 22:05, Jim Perrin wrote:>
>
> 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
>
>

I already had the nuxrepo set up on my system.  All that was needed was

yum --enablerepo=nuxrepo install skype

Thanks for clearing the cobwebs.

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