Sunday, January 29, 2012

Install Skype in EL6 (RHEL 6/ Scientificlinux 6/ Centos 6)

Install Skype in EL6 (RHEL 6/ Scientificlinux 6/ Centos 6)

Apparently Skype are still living in the past and they do not provide 64bit versions of their app... So, in order to install it in our EL6 64bit OS we need to install a crapload of 32bit dependencies. Repeat after me (as root):
 
yum install libasound.so.2 libXv.so.1 libXss.so.1 libSM.so.6 libXi.so.6 libXrender.so.1 libXrandr.so.2 libfreetype.so.6 libfontconfig.so.1 libz.so.1 libgthread-2.0.so.0 libstdc++.so.6 libQtDBus.so.4 libQtGui.so.4 pulseaudio-libs.i686 wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-fc10 yum localinstall --nogpgcheck ./skype-*.rpm
That's about it!

PS: I love it how yum automatically found those dependencies by only specifying .so files! ;-)

Update! - It seems the latest RPM for Fedora (skype-2.2.0.25-fedora.i586.rpm in this case) no longer works on EL6 - gives out an "Aborted" message and dies. I found that after installing the RPM you can get the program back working by overwriting the binary from /usr/bin/skype with the one from the static version:
 
wget http://download.skype.com/linux/skype_static-2.2.0.25.tar.bz2
tar xjf skype_static-2.2.0.25.tar.bz2
cp skype_static-2.2.0.25/skype /usr/bin/skype
cp: overwrite `/usr/bin/skype'? y

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