[CentOS] skypeforlinux lacks dependencies, won't update

Tue Nov 21 06:55:33 UTC 2017
wwp <subscript at free.fr>

Hello,


On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 19:22:19 -0600 Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 11/20/2017 07:13 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> > On 11/20/17 03:44, wwp wrote:  
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:58:21 +1300 Peter <peter at pajamian.dhs.org> wrote:
> >>  
> >>> On 20/11/17 11:30, milos.blazevic wrote:  
> >>>> There's the unstable version that installs and works:
> >>>> https://www.skype.com/en/insider/  
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for pointing this out, it looks like they removed the newer
> >>> GLIBCXX requirement that was added for 8.10, possibly due to popular demand?  
> >>
> >> Maybe. Unpacking the rpm works, anyway, I never encountered a single
> >> binary issue since I use it like that (ordinary use, I probably don't
> >> use that text encoding or whatever submodule which depends on a newer
> >> libstdc++).
> >>
> >>
> > > Please explain "Unpacking the RPM".  How is one to do that when there  
> > are broken dependencies?  
> 
> Easy.
>     rpm2cpio /path/to/whatever.rpm | cpio -idm
> 
> Probably best to do that in a temporary directory and see what you get.
> See the cpio manpage for other options.

Exactly. One could also install using `rpm -Uvh --nodeps
skypeforlinux-64-0.rpm`, that worked too even if NOT solving the dep
for uninstalled lib for the specific skype module.


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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