[CentOS] Skype on CentOS

[Liam O'Toole]

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