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I have searched hour for posts about this subject and have found many posts about possible solutions but have yet failed to manage to install skype on Fedora 22 with a 64 bits machine
Post like this one http://www.tecmint.com/things-to-do-after-fedora-22-workstation-installation/ and many other have suggested to install Fedy but when I do I get this error after succesfully installin fedy and choosing to install Skype from fedyd
[MIRROR] dbus-libs-1.8.18-1.fc22.i686.rpm: Curl error (78): Remote file not found for ftp://mirror.uta.edu.ec/fedora/updates/22/x86_64/d/dbus-libs-1.8.18-1.fc22.i686.rpm [RETR response: 550] [MIRROR] dbus-libs-1.8.18-1.fc22.i686.rpm: Status code: 404 for http://mirror.uta.edu.ec/fedora/updates/22/x86_64/d/dbus-libs-1.8.18-1.fc22.i686.rpm [FAILED] dbus-libs-1.8.18-1.fc22.i686.rpm: No more mirrors to try - All mirrors were already tried without success Error: Error downloading packages:======= ] 746 kB/s | 58 MB 00:25 ETA Cannot download d/dbus-libs-1.8.18-1.fc22.i686.rpm: All mirrors were tried Failed to show notification: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files
I also found this http://www.tecmint.com/skype-4-2-released-install-on-ubuntu-debian-linux-mint-and-fedora/ but since it mentions apt-get is very clear to me that it does not work for fedora even after chaning the apt-get
to the a dnf
or yum
comand since no skype package is found
I have also tried downloading and installing the Fedora 16 32 bits from the skype.com downlad site but the installation has not finished after many minutes and does not provide any feedback or success result
And now it has failed with a very ironic message given the combination of the name of the package and the error itself
I have also try other solutions in other forums and decided to seek help here since is a good place to get precise and updated answers
Are you taking about this http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=lpf-skype and if that is the case what if my system is a AMD A8-3520M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics × 4 since "The skype package is available only for i686 systems."
– Mauricio Gracia Gutierrez – 2015-08-04T05:12:23.467I'm talking about a package that could be downloaded from skype.com. Yes, they offer only 32bit builds, but it should work on 64bit. – at8eqeq3 – 2015-08-04T05:18:48.237
@at8eqeq3 please read the update at the end of the post with the attached screen shot when following your advice – Mauricio Gracia Gutierrez – 2015-08-04T05:29:40.983
I believe installing via commandline will be more verbose to find where problem is. I'll try to reproduce in hour or two. Also, there's now a web version, maybe it will be enough for you. – at8eqeq3 – 2015-08-04T05:36:03.597
So, I've successfully installed Skype on my Fedora 22 x64. After running
rpm -iv skype-4.3.0.37-fedora.i586.rpm
it said it requires some packages: alsa-plugins-pulseaudio, libXv, qtwebkit, qt-x11 and qt (all are 32-bit) (actually, it asks for some libraries, but it's not too hard to find which packages they belong to). When all dependencies were met, I could install and run skype (can't test if everything works but at least it starts and allows me to log in). – at8eqeq3 – 2015-08-04T07:18:50.297@at8eqeq3 you should have provided me with an answer so that I could comment on that an improve it – Mauricio Gracia Gutierrez – 2015-08-04T17:08:40.517