Install Skype 4.3 on Fedora 21-20-CentOS-RHEL-SL7-6.6

This is guide, howto install Skype 4.3 on Fedora 21/20/19/18/17/16 on CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL)/Scientific Linux (SL) 7/6.6. This is actually easy process, but I won’t use Skype own RPM package, which works only with Fedora 16+. Skype package also doesn’t care about any needed dependencies on 64-bit (x86_64) systems nor 32-bit (i686) systems. This guide uses Skype dynamic package and all dependencies are installed manually.

1. Install Skype 4.3 on Fedora 21/20/19/18 and CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 7/6.6

1.1 Change root user
su -
## OR ##
sudo -i

1.2 Install needed repositories

Needed only on CentOS/RHEL/SL

## CentOS 7, Red Hat (RHEL) 7 and Scientific Linux 7 ##
yum localinstall
yum localinstall
 
 
## CentOS 6, Red Hat (RHEL) 6 and Scientific Linux 6 ##
yum localinstall

1.3 Install Needed Dependencies

//该命令 可能失败，不过，可以继续后续操作
yum install alsa-lib.i686 fontconfig.i686 freetype.i686 glib2.i686 libSM.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 libXi.i686 libXrandr.i686 libXrender.i686 libXv.i686 libstdc++.i686 pulseaudio-libs.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 zlib.i686 qtwebkit.i686

Same command on multiple lines:

yum install alsa-lib.i686 fontconfig.i686 freetype.i686 \
glib2.i686 libSM.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 libXi.i686 \
libXrandr.i686 libXrender.i686 libXv.i686 libstdc++.i686 \
pulseaudio-libs.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 zlib.i686 qtwebkit.i686

Additional dependencies for CentOS 6 / Red Hat (RHEL) 6 / Scientific Linux (SL) 6

yum install libcanberra-gtk2.i686 gtk2-engines.i686 PackageKit-gtk-module.i686

1.4 Download Skype 4.3 Dynamic

cd /tmp

## Skype 4.3 Dynamic for Fedora/CentOS/RHEL/SL ##
wget --trust-server-names

1.5 Extract Skype

mkdir /opt/skype

## Extract Skype 4.3 ##
tar xvf skype-4.3* -C /opt/skype --strip-components=1

1.6 Create Launcher

ln -s /opt/skype/skype.desktop /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop
ln -s /opt/skype/icons/SkypeBlue_48x48.png /usr/share/icons/skype.png
ln -s /opt/skype/icons/SkypeBlue_48x48.png /usr/share/pixmaps/skype.png

touch /usr/bin/skype
chmod 755 /usr/bin/skype

Open /usr/bin/skype with text editor and add following content:
Fedora / CentOS 7 / Red Hat (RHEL) 7 / Scientific Linux (SL) 7


#!/bin/sh
export SKYPE_HOME="/opt/skype"
 
$SKYPE_HOME/skype --resources=$SKYPE_HOME $*

CentOS 6 / Red Hat (RHEL) 6 / Scientific Linux (SL) 6


#!/bin/sh
export SKYPE_HOME="/opt/skype"
export GTK2_RC_FILES="/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

$SKYPE_HOME/skype --resources=$SKYPE_HOME $*

If you you have problems to use command line editors, like vi/vim, nano, emacs, pico, joe, etc. then copy and paste following lines (exatcly) to terminal to create /usr/bin/skype file.
Fedora / CentOS 7 / Red Hat (RHEL) 7 / Scientific Linux (SL) 7


cat << EOF > /usr/bin/skype
#!/bin/sh
export SKYPE_HOME="/opt/skype"
 
\$SKYPE_HOME/skype --resources=\$SKYPE_HOME \$*
EOF

CentOS 6 / Red Hat (RHEL) 6 / Scientific Linux (SL) 6


cat << EOF > /usr/bin/skype
#!/bin/sh
export SKYPE_HOME="/opt/skype"
export GTK2_RC_FILES="/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

\$SKYPE_HOME/skype --resources=\$SKYPE_HOME \$*
EOF

2. Use Skype
2.1 Start Skype

From command line use skype command


[root@localhost tmp]# skype

//注意：下面步骤可能不同。不过，缺什么，yum 什么。

/usr/bin/skype: /opt/skype/skype: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: 没有那个文件或目录
[root@localhost tmp]# yum install glibc.i686

[root@localhost tmp]# skype
/opt/skype/skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[root@localhost tmp]# yum install libstdc++.so.6

[root@localhost tmp]# skype
/opt/skype/skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[root@localhost tmp]# yum install libXv.so.1

[root@localhost tmp]# skype
/opt/skype/skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[root@localhost tmp]# yum install libXss.so.1

[root@localhost tmp]# skype
/opt/skype/skype: error while loading shared libraries: libQtDBus.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[root@localhost tmp]# yum install libQtDBus.so.4

[root@localhost tmp]# skype
/opt/skype/skype: error while loading shared libraries: libQtWebKit.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[root@localhost tmp]# yum install libQtWebKit.so.4

+++++++++++++++

yum提示another app is currently holding the yum lock;waiting for it to exit

可能是系统自动升级正在运行，yum在锁定状态中。
可以通过强制关掉yum进程：

# rm -f /var/run/yum.pid
然后就可以使用yum了。