How To Install Skype on Fedora 13 (64bit)

In this howto i will describe how to install Skype on Fedora 13 64bit. As Skype dont provide 64bit version of Skype for Fedora. We can use i586 version of Skype and to achieve this we need to install i686 libraries. This howto can be used to install Skype on 64bit Fedora 10 – 11 – 12 – 13.

1) Install Pre-Requisite i686 Packages.

Pre-requisite contain pulse audio because of to use call in/out.

yum -y install libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 pulseaudio-libs.i686 pulseaudio-libs-glib2.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686

2) Download Skype i586 (fedora10+)

wget http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586.rpm

3) Install Skype

rpm -ivh skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586.rpm

Run it from Applicaition or command line and bravo its running πŸ™‚

Please comment for any questions.

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46 thoughts on “How To Install Skype on Fedora 13 (64bit)

  1. wooow that was the easiest/quickest fix i have ever seen
    thanks alot
    hope all articles are that straight to the point and clear πŸ˜‰

  2. Many thanks! I’d almost given up all hopes on using Skype under Fedora 14 x64 but following your instructions, it now works! I did have to configure my input settings under Gnome as the test call didn’t work at first, but now all is fine. One more reason to ditch Windows. Do hope they’ll work on a native x64 version though.

  3. Second the previous comment. Worked like a charm with –
    Fedora 14 64-bit
    Skype 2.2.0.25

    Great how-to!

  4. hey i have installed skye according to above instructions but i am not able to do video chat. Can anybody help me out of this mesh???

  5. error: can’t create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock (permission denied)

    what can i do?

  6. @lil: you need to confirm that no rpm command is been in run when you are using yum. Because at one time you can issue one rpm command to rpm database. Another issue is that are you root user while executing yum command ?

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    Regards,

  7. hello, i installed skype. my micro phone is not working. headphone is working. can you help me. i check test call and audio setting. but i did’t got it. my operating system is fodera 13 (64 bit)

  8. Audio input (mic) no sound fix:
    Fedora 13, Fedora 14, Fedora 15

    In addition to the above, I had to install Pulse Audio Volume Control

    sudo yum install pavucontrol

    Within Pulse Audio Volume Control, select the Input Device tab – Unlock the channels, and turn one Left to 100% and Right to 0%.

    I don’t know what PulseAudio mutes the mic if both channels set to 100%.

  9. other way is via its repository:
    1. create file skype.repo on folder /etc/yum.repos.d/
    2. edit the file and the content of file skype.repo have to:
    [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

    3. After save you need to running the command:
    yum install skype

    Good luck

  10. As simple as required. Thanks a lot. It works lite on Fedora 13, 64bit.

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