Skype and Fedora 12
 

Has anyone got Skype working under Fed 12? I download the rpm from Skype.com, it installs, but doesn't work. I get 'could not launch Skype, failed to execute child process "skype", (no such file or directory)'

I do not get any error notices on installation.

You probably got the Fedora Core 5 version? I don't think that will work with Fedora 12. Try this and see if you have any luck.

Thanks, but it didn't work. I have that package already installed. Just don't work. Apart from that, I like Fed 12, everything seems to work!

Any more ideas??

Although I don't use Skype I've installed the Fedora 10 package in the past. Seemed to work in as much as I could run the program, as I recall, from the command line. Maybe there was a menu entry. Can't recall.

Figured I'd try again.
This is what I see.

Attachments don't show as thumbnails?

[peter@pedro-laptop ~]$ skype
bash: /usr/bin/skype: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory

Basically guessing, since I'm at work on a Windows box.
If it isn't found then

Then install whatever package provides ld-linux.so.2 and try skype again.

Now that I'm in front of a Linux box see if glibc is installed.

Is this progress?

[peter@pedro-laptop ~]$ rpm -qa | grep glibc
glibc-2.11.1-1.x86_64
glibc-common-2.11.1-1.x86_64

Did the other bits, except install.
This is a result from the 'yum provides */' command. Locate doesn't find anything.

[peter@pedro-laptop ~]$ locate -c ld-linux.so.2
0


Do I need to install glibc-2.11.1-1.i686 on top of the _64 version???



glibc-2.11-2.i686 : The GNU libc libraries
Repo : fedora
Matched from:
Filename : /lib/ld-linux.so.2



arm-gp2x-linux-glibc-2.3.6-7.fc12.noarch : Cross Compiled GNU C Library targeted
: at arm-gp2x-linux
Repo : fedora
Matched from:
Filename : /usr/arm-gp2x-linux/lib/ld-linux.so.2



glibc-2.11.1-1.i686 : The GNU libc libraries
Repo : updates
Matched from:
Filename : /lib/ld-linux.so.2

The issue is that you're using the 64 Bit version of Fedora and Skype is looking for 32 Bit libraries. Don't know how to get around that.

Oh well, thought Fed 12 was too good to be true!

Thanks anyway!

It is. Just takes a little work.

Seems to be working on my fedora12 machine. It comes up with my contacts, and shows who's on line.
I have Beta version 2.1.0.81 installed.
I did it by following the guide on source forge for "the perfect fedora12 desktop"
It said to add this repo. Then just use the software installer to install skype.
[skype]
name=Skype Repository
baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586/
gpgkey=http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

I use Fedora 12 64-bit
I use Skype without ANY issues at all.

The method I use is the Skype repo like decrepit mentions.

Completely remove the skype rpm stuff you have on there now. Input the repo and 'yum install skype'

I did what you said, used gedit to make a skype.repo file in the yum.repos.d or whatever it's called. Sadly I get the message below from yum install skype

Package(s) data still to download: 19 M
http://download.skype.com/linux/repo...1-fc.i586.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 200 : http://download.skype.com/linux/repo...81-fc.i586.rpm
Trying other mirror.


Error Downloading Packages:
skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586: failure: skype-2.1.0.81-fc.i586.rpm from skype: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

Any more tips??

Well, the error seemed to be because of an excruciatingly slow connection. I ran the command yum install skype several times, until it had the whole package. It is installed, and I have exactly the same problem.

bash: /usr/bin/skype: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory

Any more tips?