Easiest way to get Skype on Fedora 11

06.17.2009 | Author: Georgiana | Posted in Computer setup

I investigated today about an hour, and none of the solutions worked. Until I found this one, quick and easy setup. Thanks, guys.

[...] install the Skype repository. Open a terminal and type:

su -c 'gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/skype.repo'

In that file copy the following lines:

[skype]
name=Skype Repository
baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586/
enabled=1
gpgkey=http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc
gpgcheck=0

Now you can easily install/update skype by typing:

su -c 'yum install skype'
su -c 'yum update skype'

27 Responses

  1. Ahmed June 24th, 2009 at 10:17 pm

    I just installed Fedora 11 was using opensuse 11.1 have to say that Fedora beats opensuse anytime, its waay more efficient, everything installed instantly unlike suse which kept giving me problems with my graphics card, could a while to load, kept getting stuck, nah man Fedora 11 is what the linux experience is all about.

    Thanks for this guide on setting up skype Ive definitely found my distro and gonna stick to it.

    Thank you

  2. shibu varghese INDIA June 30th, 2009 at 5:41 am

    Great document for installing Skype, Thanks, Very easy.

  3. Georgiana ROMANIA June 30th, 2009 at 3:07 pm

    I’m glad it helped you. Skype on! ;-)

  4. Cameron AUSTRALIA July 9th, 2009 at 4:44 am

    I just thought id throw my 5 cents in and say my VIOP USB appears to work quite ok and thats plug and play basicly, No need for any terminal. you congig it up in the Skype Program and to Test it you just call up the Call Test Service! Works for me ;) ) And USB Headsets would also work straight up id say…

  5. Pavel UKRAINE July 28th, 2009 at 10:17 am

    Thanks a lot!!!
    It’s work now.

  6. Georgiana ROMANIA July 28th, 2009 at 3:57 pm

    I’m glad it works for you.

  7. Bruno Borges BRAZIL July 29th, 2009 at 7:46 pm

    Does this method also works with 64 bit (x86_64) ?

    Thanks,
    Bruno

  8. Georgiana ROMANIA July 29th, 2009 at 10:21 pm

    @Bruno

    I don’t see why this method shouldn’t work on 64 bits. My Fedora install is 64 bits, and it worked like a charm. But do let us know if you have any problems with it, so we can sort it out together.

  9. didievilempire BRAZIL September 7th, 2009 at 12:12 am

    thank you

    100% worked

  10. swbudda SINGAPORE September 7th, 2009 at 2:25 pm

    Its great!

  11. Fredy BRAZIL September 14th, 2009 at 12:26 am

    Thanks a lot!

    very easy steps!

  12. Delio BRAZIL September 19th, 2009 at 9:01 pm

    Great! Easy! And… works on x86_64!
    Bruno, manda ver porque funciona!

  13. kibarashi October 12th, 2009 at 9:35 pm

    Hi! Could you help me, how to install skype on fedora 11 64 bit, kde ?

  14. Georgiana ROMANIA October 13th, 2009 at 8:22 am

    have you followed the instructions and they didn’t work?

    please let us know if something went wrong, so we can help you, otherwise you must follow the instructions above that worked for all of us

  15. UgniusM LITHUANIA October 16th, 2009 at 4:52 pm

    Just tried it on Fedora 11 64bit. It works.

  16. Wolfgang Kucher AUSTRIA October 19th, 2009 at 9:28 am

    I’m very thankfull for this great document, it saved me a lot of time. Kind regards Wolfgang

  17. Georgiana ROMANIA October 19th, 2009 at 3:27 pm

    Hi Wolfgang, I’m glad you found this information useful, I hope you come back on this site for more useful tricks like this one.

  18. Dr M Akhtar Qureshi SAUDI ARABIA October 19th, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    hi to all
    thanks for help.
    I entered and saved “Skype repository”.
    After this installar “Genom package” stop working .
    I removed and start working again.
    Any help. i am just newby to Linux.
    Thanks
    Dr qureshi

  19. SiCretoR GREECE October 23rd, 2009 at 9:39 am

    Thank you it worked perfectly!!!

  20. alnazeer October 26th, 2009 at 10:11 pm

    Thank you for your help .

  21. Delio BRAZIL November 26th, 2009 at 11:56 pm

    Me, again. Though skype installed and worked, I never got my webcam to work. I followed the steps in http://allmybase.com/?p=94 and finally got video in skype in fedora 11 x86_64.

  22. Normanr INDONESIA December 23rd, 2009 at 11:48 am

    Cheers Mate…. after two hours of banging my head against the wall… got it finally installed.

    Many thanks

    N

  23. shibu INDIA February 22nd, 2010 at 4:02 am

    Hi Georgiana,

    Its easy to install skype in Fedora 11.

    One issue I am facing while starting skype, It tells

    “Failed to execute child process “skype” (No such file or directory)”

    Can you give some light on it? It will very helpfull Georgiana.

    Thanks,
    Shibu Varghese

  24. Thiago BRAZIL February 24th, 2010 at 8:52 pm

    Thank you very much. It works pretty good!

  25. Greg April 11th, 2010 at 9:02 pm

    I am having same problem as Shibu, same error message.

  26. rvrichie SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO May 16th, 2010 at 5:10 pm

    this is really excellent HOW-TO…
    ;)

  27. Javier G. Gitto ARGENTINA June 30th, 2010 at 1:35 pm

    Hi, I have installed skype (skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586) from skype repository on a Fedora Core 11 but their execution it is not normal, I have the follow error:

    skype: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    Any idea how to fix it? Thanks in advance.
    //Javier

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