On 2015-08-06, Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca> wrote: > On 05/08/15 08:06 PM, Andrew Daviel wrote: >> >> I have Skype 2.1.0 running on CentOS 5, but it does not support >> video. >> >> At various times I have tried to install or run more recent versions >> on CentOS 5 and CentOS 6, but generally they fail for some reason, >> e.g. library requirements. >> >> We would like to run Skype in some conference rooms, for business >> reasons e.g. job interviews where some participants don't have access >> to more "professional" solutions, and as I recall Microsoft shut down >> gateways to H323. >> >> Does anyone have a good procedure for running Skype on CentOS ? E.g. >> does it run natively on CentOS 7 ? Or will it run with a custom >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, as does Mozilla ? Or will it run inside a virtual >> machine, or with Wine ? >> >> We have video capture cards using V4L2 that work with e.g. SeeVoghRN, >> xawtv and, I think, Ekiga. > > If you're not stuck on CentOS 5... > > http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2012/install-skype-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel-scientific-linux-sl > > To the point, works. > That article seems unnecessarily complicated, at least as far as CentOS 6 and 7 are concerned. Skype is in the nux-dextop repository (which repository is mentioned in the article), so a simple 'yum install skype' will do the trick. -- Liam