Install Skype 8.69 on Fedora 34/33, CentOS/RHEL/SL 8.3/7.8 - Comment Page: 17
This is guide, howto install Skype 8.69 on Fedora 34/33/32/31 on CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL)/Scientific Linux (SL) 8.3/7.8. This is actually easy process, I updated this guide and use Skype own RPM package, because it's currently only way the install Skype. Skype 4.3 and older versions are outdated after July 1. 2017.
Notice From Skype download page:
Important notice: All Skype for Linux clients version 4.3 and older will be retired on July 1, 2017. To keep chatting, please install the latest version of Skype for Linux.
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Hi JR,
I have the same problem with skype as Colin Ager has,
My CPU is AMD Athlon 32 PAE; kernel:3.14.17-100.fc19.i686
I am using KDE.
I sent strace report to http://pastebin.com
Please help me in fixing this issue.
rpetrickovic
Hi rpetrickovic,
Could you post your pastebin link too?
Hi JR. The only unusual item in this machine is the video card which is a That is a Nvidia Quadro FX1100. I tried to use the PAE kernel but although the processer (AthlonXP2200+) is supposed to be compatible with this it hangs on boot! That is why I am using the non PAE version. Most other programs seem to work OK even Google Earth (once I used rpmrebuild to remove conflict in the rpm). I also tried loading Fedora16 as a guest with virtualbox and although I got it to load it was so slow as to be unusable. If it can handle these, what is so special about Skype? Is it expecting some odd scripting tool that I don’t have ?
I have now set-up a Pastebin account with username Cager in case it is needed.
Cheers Colin
Hi,
I am in the process of updating my Fedora 18 with a clean Fedora install.
The new version installed OK on fc18 but it insists on auto running at boot!
I left a message on the Linux Skype forum got lots of “reads” but no answer.
Doe this have to auto run, if not, how can I stop it!?
There does not seem to be a place on the GUI to stop it, but I think windoze does!
Thanks
Peter H
Hi Peter H,
Do you mean that Skype starts automatically, when you start your Linux / Desktop?
What desktop are you using?
Hi,
Yes it was doing that on fc18 but I wanted to upgrade bash (shellshock) and fc18 is no longer supported so have upgraded to fc20.
I used this information:
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2012/install-skype-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel-scientific-linux-sl/
It does not now start at boot so, either I was doing something wrong or there was some differences with the earlier version!
FYI I was using gnome desktop on all installs.
Thanks for your time.
Peter H
Hi Peter,
You could try to copy/link your /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop to /etc/xdg/autostart (system wide) or ~/.config/autostart (per user).
Example:
it’s hear, sory
http://pastebin.com/7zS7kPDN
RP
I’ve also got a seg fault when trying to run skype on fedora 20 (fresh install)
[[email protected] ~]$ strace -o output.txt /usr/bin/skype
/usr/bin/skype: line 4: 5489 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $SKYPE_HOME/skype –resources=$SKYPE_HOME $*
http://pastebin.com/XRHQ71f3
can anyone advise please?
thanks
Hi JR,
Unfortunately, it looks like my problem is due to old processor with SSE only
https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA12252/why-can-t-i-make-video-calls-on-the-latest-version-of-skype-for-windows-desktop
RP
@Simon and @rpetrickovic
Could you post output of following commands (example to pastebin again):
Hi JR,
my output on pastebin
http://pastebin.com/pPTVacxL
RP
HI JR. It looks as if I was misinformed and that none of the AthlonXP processors are sse2 capable according to “CPU World”, so that puts the tin lid on it! I will have to go hunting for a cheap desktop machine with an Athlon64 or later which does have the ability to use sse2 and sse3. I need Skype for an elderly(82) sister-in-law. I am a mere 76!
Many thanks for trying to help.
Colin
Hi rpetrickovic and Colin,
Thanks for posting your outputs. It seems that everything is okay on software side, so yes, then it’s hardware problem (maybe that missing SSE2). Skype problems are sometimes very hard to debug, because it’s closed source app and might work on Windows, but not on Linux and so on.
I think I have narrowed it down – Skype launches fine when using akmod nvidia drivers, but seg faults when using the binary drivers direct from nvidia’s website.
Unfortunately I need the offical driver for my 3d applications, so looks like skype will have to lose out :(
Hi Simon,
I’ve seen this happen a few times in the past that nVidia Linux drivers have caused problems with Skype.
Hey, It is not working for me :(
WHen I try to install the dependencies I’m getting:
Error: Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root
cause is something else and multilib version checking is just
pointing out that there is a problem. Eg.:
1. You have an upgrade for libwayland-server which is missing some
dependency that another package requires. Yum is trying to
solve this by installing an older version of libwayland-server of the
different architecture. If you exclude the bad architecture
yum will tell you what the root cause is (which package
requires what). You can try redoing the upgrade with
--exclude libwayland-server.otherarch ... this should give you an error
message showing the root cause of the problem.
2. You have multiple architectures of libwayland-server installed, but
yum can only see an upgrade for one of those architectures.
If you don't want/need both architectures anymore then you
can remove the one with the missing update and everything
will work.
3. You have duplicate versions of libwayland-server installed already.
You can use "yum check" to get yum show these errors.
...you can also use --setopt=protected_multilib=false to remove
this checking, however this is almost never the correct thing to
do as something else is very likely to go wrong (often causing
much more problems).
protected multilib version : libwayland-server-1.2.0-3.fc20.i686 != libwayland-server-1.5.0-4.el7.nux.x86_64
Error: protected multilib version: libwayland-client-1.2.0-3.fc20.i686 != libwayland-client-1.5.0-4.el7.nux.x86_64
any idea?
Hi Diego,
Try following first:
Then try this guide again.
Thank you :-)
Good instructions, thanks! Worked perfectly for me on Fedora 20.
It is not working in Fedora 20 x86_64
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root
cause is something else and multilib version checking is just
pointing out that there is a problem. Eg.:
1. You have an upgrade for libwayland-server which is missing some
dependency that another package requires. Yum is trying to
solve this by installing an older version of libwayland-server of the
different architecture. If you exclude the bad architecture
yum will tell you what the root cause is (which package
requires what). You can try redoing the upgrade with
–exclude libwayland-server.otherarch … this should give you an error
message showing the root cause of the problem.
2. You have multiple architectures of libwayland-server installed, but
yum can only see an upgrade for one of those architectures.
If you don’t want/need both architectures anymore then you
can remove the one with the missing update and everything
will work.
3. You have duplicate versions of libwayland-server installed already.
You can use “yum check” to get yum show these errors.
…you can also use –setopt=protected_multilib=false to remove
this checking, however this is almost never the correct thing to
do as something else is very likely to go wrong (often causing
much more problems).
Protected multilib versions: libwayland-server-1.2.0-3.fc20.i686 != libwayland-server-1.5.0-4.el7.nux.x86_64
Error: Protected multilib versions: libvdpau-0.7-1.fc20.i686 != libvdpau-0.8-1.el7.x86_64
Error: Protected multilib versions: libwayland-client-1.2.0-3.fc20.i686 != libwayland-client-1.5.0-4.el7.nux.x86_64
Error: Protected multilib versions: qtwebkit-2.3.3-1.fc20.i686 != qtwebkit-2.3.4-1.fc20.x86_64
Error: Protected multilib versions: pulseaudio-libs-4.0-8.gitf81e3.fc20.i686 != pulseaudio-libs-5.0-7.fc20.x86_64
Error: Protected multilib versions: libgomp-4.8.2-1.fc20.i686 != libgomp-4.8.3-7.fc20.x86_64
Hi Roderick,
Try following first:
Then try to install dependencies again.
Thanks for this. I just upgraded my personal workstation to Fedora 21 and had Skype 4.2 stop working. Previously I’d stuck with 4.2 because the 4.3 rpm wasn’t working with Pulse on my machines. Your instructions and configuration for the dynamic tarball worked like a charm!
Awesome! Thanks a lot man! My last fedora was 16 then i had a 2 year break and now installed fedora 20. So much changed, i remember that on 16th installing skype working with your audio devices was a several days operation :D But now it works like charm.
Thanks again!)