[CentOS] Skype Issue(SOLVED)

Fri Aug 14 01:02:36 UTC 2015
Mark LaPierre <marklapier at gmail.com>

On 08/12/15 20:14, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> Hey Y'all,
> 
> Seems my Skype installation has stopped working.
> 
> I have skype-4.3.0.37-2.el6.i686.rpm from the Nux repo.
> 
> [mlapier at peach ~]$ skype %U
> (<unknown>:27070): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
> module_path: "clearlooks",
> Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
> Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
> 
> I checked the yum log.  Other than the 6.7 upgrade these are all the
> transactions I see.
> 
> Aug 09 20:32:28 Updated: firefox-38.1.1-1.el6.centos.x86_64
> Aug 11 20:58:39 Updated: firefox-38.2.0-4.el6.centos.x86_64
> Aug 11 20:58:40 Updated: flash-plugin-11.2.202.508-release.x86_64
> Aug 11 20:58:49 Updated: google-chrome-stable-44.0.2403.155-1.x86_64
> Aug 12 17:29:49 Installed: opus-1.1-1.el6.x86_64
> 
> The issue did not begin with the 6.7 upgrade.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea how to fix the issue?
> 

Hey All,

It was late last night when I figured it out.  I would have written
about it then but I needed to go to bed.  5:30 comes quickly.

What I did was to enable the nux-dextop repo and run yum install skype.
 This is the relevant section of the yum log.

Aug 12 17:29:49 Installed: opus-1.1-1.el6.x86_64
Aug 12 22:40:19 Installed: libtool-ltdl-2.2.6-15.5.el6.i686
Aug 12 22:40:19 Installed: libtdb-1.2.10-1.el6.i686
Aug 12 22:40:20 Installed: libcanberra-0.22-1.el6.centos.i686
Aug 12 22:40:20 Installed: libcanberra-gtk2-0.22-1.el6.centos.i686
Aug 12 22:40:21 Installed: gtk2-engines-2.18.4-5.el6.centos.i686
Aug 12 22:40:21 Installed: PackageKit-gtk-module-0.5.8-25.el6.i686
Aug 12 22:40:21 Installed: libv4l-0.6.3-2.el6.i686
Aug 12 22:40:23 Updated: skype-4.3.0.37-2.el6.nux.i586

Thank you for your thoughtful reply Jonathan.

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