Comments on: Easiest way to get Skype on Fedora 11

By: tas

tas — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:05:37 +0000

installed !!
last line was important
gpgcheck=0 , without this , not signed message was coming.

By: Javier G. Gitto

Javier G. Gitto — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:35:34 +0000

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

By: rvrichie

rvrichie — Sun, 16 May 2010 16:10:18 +0000

this is really excellent HOW-TO…

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:02:14 +0000

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

By: Thiago

Thiago — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:52:46 +0000

Thank you very much. It works pretty good!

By: shibu

shibu — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:02:01 +0000

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

By: Normanr

Normanr — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:48:25 +0000

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

Many thanks

By: Delio

Delio — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:56:51 +0000

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.

By: alnazeer

alnazeer — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:11:58 +0000

Thank you for your help .

By: SiCretoR

SiCretoR — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:39:25 +0000

Thank you it worked perfectly!!!